From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 14:33:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13021 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13016 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-166.laker.net [208.0.233.66]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id RAA12171; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:31:53 -0400 Message-Id: <199810232131.RAA12171@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Geoffrey Robinson" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:30:42 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing on a System with Too Much RAM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:35:34 -0400, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: >Okay, I didn't notice this until now but there is a line at the top of the >boot prompt screen showing the amount of memory. I'm not sure if that's the >avail memory your talking about but I don't see anything else that could >be. Anyway its showing 64M as expected. > I'd say that since it's only showing 64M that your problem is not related to it finding 1GB of RAM. You indicated that it paniced when it didn't find anything on the disk. Can you describe your steps during install?? Did you get to the slice editor and create space for FreeBSD and then create partitions (what DOS calls partitions, freebsd calls a slice) for /, /usr, /var, and /tmp ?? Did you get past that part and did the install lay down files? Your first posting I thought indicated you had basically completed the install but paniced on the reboot... Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message