Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:23:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net> To: Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, KiwiCado23@aol.com Subject: Re: Question Message-ID: <XFMail.010522072307.y3k@gti.net> In-Reply-To: <01dc01c0e270$5c4ba610$0300a8c0@oracle>
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On 22-May-01 Doug Young wrote: > >> Unsure of the proper source of information, I turn to whoever this > e-mail >> address belongs to. I attempted to install FreeBSD on a ancient 386 > laptop >> and it is not working, are you the correct e-mail address to > diagnose the >> problem or can you please direct me to the appropriate person. >> > the "386 laptop" tells the story :) > > I've never found installation works properly with less than 16Mb RAM, > and very > few geriatric 386 laptops of my acquaintance had more than 4Mb. > Furthermore > laptops are probably the worst machine possible to install any unix > ... they typically > have the weirdest hardware in existence & its often difficult even > installing Windows !! Not too long ago, I installed 4.2-R on a 486-25 laptop with 12MB RAM and a 200MB disk. It was relatively straightforward, though I suspect that it would take significantly more work to install on a system with less memory or disk than that. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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