From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 16:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apotheosis.org.za (apotheosis.org.za [137.158.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679CA37B5F5 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwest@uct.ac.za) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:32:08 +0200 From: Matthew West To: Rob Wilkinson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Message-ID: <20000716013208.A91967@apotheosis.org.za> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Wilkinson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <396D6C10.462BC735@Ultranet.ca>; from "Rob Wilkinson" on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:13:20AM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:13:20AM -0700, Rob Wilkinson wrote: > I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. > > My System: > ^^^^^^^^^ > 486 DX2/66 > 8MB of RAM ^^ While FreeBSD 3.x (and maybe even 4.x, I haven't tried) will run on 8MB of RAM, the installation will hang as you've described if you only have 8MB available. See if you can't (temporarily) add more RAM to the machine to do the installation, or move the HDD to another machine to do the install. -- mwest@uct.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message