From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 0:43:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D9537B413 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13dARE-0002Up-00; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 04:59:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 04:56:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Eric Landreville Cc: Subject: Re: 486 DX33 In-Reply-To: <008f01c143db$df7a0820$2212dc0a@lino.qc.ca> Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sat, 22 Sep 2001 it looks like Eric Landreville composed: elandr->Hi , elandr->I was trying to install Freebsd on an old 486DX33 my aunt gave me , but when it installs , the computer freezes. Everything works well with my 2 floppies , I also see that the CD is spinning , it begins to copy , but it freezes, I burned another CD , I thought it could be that, but it does the same thing. I spoke about this to some of my friends and they say the problem is my memory. I only got 8 Megs of memory and i think that could be the problem. I was wondering if i had 20 or even 32 megs of memory if freebsd would be running. I don't want to install any X-window component , only the text mode and I'd like to use my Freebsd box as a Web,ftp server and maybe as a gateway for my personal home network. Would I be able to do all those things with my pc if I'd have 20 Megs of Ram. Hello, (set your word wrap to 70) I ran across a similar memory challenge and did the install on another machine then moved the harddrive to the "memory challenged" machine. -- Bill Schoolcraft http://ForwardSlashUnix.com rm -rf /bin/laden "UNIX, A Way of Life." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message