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Date:      Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:34:01 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        gabpaul@melbpc.org.au
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386
Message-ID:  <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <opsos56oa0rokg8m@a2-6.melbpc.org.au>
References:  <opsos56oa0rokg8m@a2-6.melbpc.org.au>

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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:29:02PM +1000, Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an old old pentium, scsi HDD + floppy + CDROM, 16 MB of somewhat  
> dubious ram...

I don't think 16MB RAM is enough to install 5.x
You probably need to increase the RAM.

> 
> I have 5.3R CDs 1 and 2
> 
> I have 3 seemingly working floppies (after writing to 6 disks... ofcourse!)
> 
> boot goes like this...
> 
> boot disk.
> kern1
> kern2
> boot
> boot screen with about 8 options, none of which seem to be the  
> installation option... then reboots back to floppy...
> 
> 
> I do not seem to have a way of getting to sysinstall!!!
> 
> 

-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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