From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 20:34:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230B537B42B for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:34:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Eric Landreville" , Subject: Re: 486 DX33 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:34:45 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <00fb01c1450e$46c419c0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <00fb01c1450e$46c419c0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092423344507.03197@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 FreeBSD surely doesn't require 20 Meg for line mode. Well, I would hope not. I was running it with less than 8Meg on my first FreeBSD box, but that was 1996 or so; requirements might have gone up but they should not have gone up as high as 20M. On Monday 24 September 2001 11:33, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: > FreeBSD probably doesn't like the limited amount of memory. Try going to > 20 or 32 Megs. Either one should allow you to get it up and running. > > --- Andy > P.S. Please don't send HTML-ized e-mail to the list > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Eric Landreville > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:00 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: 486 DX33 > > > Hi , > I was trying to install Freebsd on an old 486DX33 my aunt gave me , > but when it installs , the computer freezes. Everything works well with my > 2 floppies , I also see that the CD is spinning , it begins to copy , but > it freezes, I burned another CD , I thought it could be that, but it does > the same thing. I spoke about this to some of my friends and they say the > problem is my memory. I only got 8 Megs of memory and i think that could be > the problem. I was wondering if i had 20 or even 32 megs of memory if > freebsd would be running. I don't want to install any X-window component , > only the text mode and I'd like to use my Freebsd box as a Web,ftp server > and maybe as a gateway for my personal home network. Would I be able to do > all those things with my pc if I'd have 20 Megs of Ram. > > > Eric > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message