From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 1:51:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC42A14EF0 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:51:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id JAA22765; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:48:10 GMT Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id JAA03590; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:48:34 GMT from exchange.nectech.co.uk (exchange.nectech.co.uk [193.116.199.241]) id JAA03590 (2.4-8.8.8/3.1.31); Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:48:34 GMT Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:47:11 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'acton@opentext.com'" Subject: Re: How much RAM for 3.1-RELEASE? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:47:10 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Donald, I bet it's the RAM and not the floating point emulation. I also experienced varying times until the hang (using FTP), and I think another person on the list has also had similar probs with 3.1 and 8MB. By the way, my problem machine has a 486DX2, so that might rule out the floating point possibility. I think I'll try your method of moving the disk to another machine to install. regards, Jeff >I too had problems installing 3.1 on a machine with only 8MB of memory. I was >doing an NFS install. The point at which the machine hung during the >installation (i.e. once it had started copying files to the disk) varied >wildly from nearly right away to almost finished. I eventually installed 3. 1 >by moving the disk to another system and installing from there. With the new >system installed everything worked fine when the disk was moved back to the >old machine. Since the machine in question is a 33MHz 486SX machine I >attributed the problem to something to do with the floating point emulation >since that part of the system had given me grief in the past. Based on the >comments in the LINT kernel configuration file, and messages in this >newsgroup, I built a kernel for this machine that uses the GPL-licensed >emulator taken from Linux and have been running that kernel for the past week >and a half without problems. > > >Donald Acton >acton@opentext.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message