From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 20: 3:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.vnet.net (smtp2.vnet.net [166.82.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCF615070 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp2.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA17893; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA97021; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:02:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id XAA05778; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:02:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 23:02:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199909250302.XAA05778@lakes.dignus.com> To: lh@aus.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3-RELEASE on older machines? In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The machine has had 3 oses on it in the last month and had > been up for 13 days running linux before I decided to put FreeBSD on it. > has anyone else tried installing 3.3 on a 486 or 386? > I was quite successfull at installing 3.3-RC on an old 486 (with 12 meg) that Linux 5.1 wouldn't install on. Perhaps you don't have enough RAM - I believe 3.x requires 8 meg for an install... (although, it should require less than that to run after the install is successful.) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message