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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 05:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupx@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   chinese puzzle ??
Message-ID:  <20000521125708.23132.qmail@web218.mail.yahoo.com>

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hmmm tricky one this, and my guess is it should
probably got to "Questions" anyhow, apologies in
advance (is there a way to post individual question
without subscribing, eg. message-board or such-like?)
but what I am trying it figure out is this:

I have a 486 laptop with 4MB of memory, which is
obviously borderline hardware to begin with, but it
was a donation with some other nice built-in hardware,
except for the memory shortage. 

wanted to install straightforward release, 3.3 or 3.4,
which I have on floppies already, but the machine is
rebooting just before reaching the MFSROOT config
screen, (just after the message <<press enter to boot
now, or any key for command prompt>> has appeared and
as soon as I hit enter)

i am guessing the shortage of memory is high on list
of  possible issues so i checked latest info at
<<
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT
>>

which said
<<
FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run
(sorry, there is no
support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of
RAM to install
and 4 megs of RAM to run. >>

which would be fine once I got the thing installed.

in the absence of other options, would I be able to
install a 2.2x release for example, and then upgrade
to 3.3 or 3.4 without the memory issue stepping in ??






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