Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:34:45 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, "Eric Landreville" <elandrev@lino.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 486 DX33 Message-ID: <01092423344507.03197@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <00fb01c1450e$46c419c0$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <00fb01c1450e$46c419c0$0e00000a@tomcat>
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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
>
>
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