From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 6:24:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D1837B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9771943E6E for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6TDOH2a027058 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:24:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h62n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.62]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA19318 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:24:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 6751 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jul 2002 13:24:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:24:15 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Paul Ket Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing 4.5 Message-ID: <20020729132415.GA6728@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Ket , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D455C7B.14754.EA2CC3@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D455C7B.14754.EA2CC3@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 03:17:15PM +0200, Paul Ket wrote: > Hi, > > As a newbie to non DOS/Win, i try to install freebsd 4.5 from floppy on an old > 486DX33 with 8MB ram (640+7,... MB). Available HD is apart from DOS 5,0 clean > and empty. After the second floppy and selecting available hardware, i get an > declaration of hardware in freebsd terms. It ends with > > Mouting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > > then the system hangs. > > What do i do wrong? Is installation with these minimal specs possible at all? No, it isn't. Recent versions of FreeBSD (3.4 and later) require at least 12 MB RAM (or possibly even 16 MB) to install. You can run the system with only 8 MB RAM but you can't install it. > Yes, i tried with a differend floppy, just in case of disk-errors. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message