From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 21 5:57:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web218.mail.yahoo.com (web218.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4957737B876 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmdupx@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 23133 invoked by uid 60001); 21 May 2000 12:57:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20000521125708.23132.qmail@web218.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.44.148.248] by web218.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:57:08 PDT Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 05:57:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jean-Mark Dupoux Subject: chinese puzzle ?? To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <> 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 ?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message