From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 2 0:25:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1241F37B407 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 00:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (plum20.theshop.net [208.128.7.135]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f827OmF57024; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 02:24:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Scott@bsdprophet.org) Message-ID: <3B91DF24.2E967933@bsdprophet.org> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 02:26:28 -0500 From: Scott Corey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arvind singh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Right from the "INSTALL.TXT" file of 3.3-RELEASE: "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. You will need at least 100MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation." arvind singh wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to free bsd and I am trying to boot a 486DX with 4mb RAM > machine with floppies for FreeBSD3.3. > So you need to get more ram. At least for the install. > It loads the kernel and then asks for the second floppy and then > simply gets stuck at boot prompt with message No /kernel found. Also you might want to remake the images of the floppies, i.e. kern.flp & mfsroot.flp. Also reformat your floppies first then write the images over. > > default: 0:fd(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > Am I missing something here? > Thanks in advance. > > -Arvind > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- bsd is the life blood of the internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message