From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 7:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (ha2.rdc1.tx.home.com [24.4.0.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59D337B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:14:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from c454454a ([24.179.7.105]) by lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001110151430.JVUK16007.lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com@c454454a> for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:14:30 -0800 Message-ID: <000801c04b29$532a3030$6907b318@c454454a> From: "Potchanat Samermit" To: Subject: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:17:21 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD forerunners: I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 without a CD. I am trying to = find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this machine. However, = (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images for the = floppies are too big for the diskettes.=20 My machine has only 160 MB harddrive and 4MB Ram. Don't know if I can = upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start with something minimal = first until I have more money to buy a good machine for it.=20 I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better = choice but will be the same HD. Can someone help guide me through? I have been at this for quite some = times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One day I will be able = to help others too. Thank you very much. Potchanat Samermit ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C04AF7.080C5F60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

FreeBSD forerunners:

I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 = without a=20 CD. I am trying to find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this = machine.=20 However, (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images = for the=20 floppies are too big for the diskettes.

My machine has only 160 MB harddrive = and 4MB Ram.=20 Don't know if I can upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start = with=20 something minimal first until I have more money to buy a good machine = for it.=20

I have another machine with more RAM = (20M) may be=20 that is a better choice but will be the same HD.

Can someone help guide me through? I = have been at=20 this for quite some times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One = day I=20 will be able to help others too.

Thank you very much.

Potchanat = Samermit

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