Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:11:25 -0500 From: Raul Zighelboim <rzig@verio.net> To: "'Andrzej Bialecki'" <abial@nask.pl>, David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "'David E. Cross'" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 1 Gbyte of ram Message-ID: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB167F9DC5@kaori.communique.net>
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I just retested. The floppy does indeed install 2.2.6 with 512 megs, it
does not install with 786432K.
When I attempted to install with all the ram and failed, I went
down to 256 megs to install.
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Raul Zighelboim rzig@verio.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrzej Bialecki [SMTP:abial@nask.pl]
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 1998 3:47 AM
> To: David Greenman
> Cc: Raul Zighelboim; 'David E. Cross'; 'hackers@freebsd.org'
> Subject: Re: 1 Gbyte of ram
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote:
>
> > >BTW. I don't quite understand what's the problem with bounce
> buffers - can
> > >they be made to work out-of-the-box with large RAMs or can't
> they??? As it
> > >is now (and has been for some time), the boot.flp dies on machines
> with >=
> > >512MB RAM, and IMHO this shouldn't happen...
> >
> > Well, that's interesting since I installed 2.2.6 on a machine
> with 512MB
> > RAM myself a couple of weeks ago and I'm pretty sure that this was
> also
> > tested by Jordan prior to the release. Are your sure it doesn't
> install for
> > you with 512MB of RAM?
>
> No :-) I was wrong - this is indeed fixed in 2.2.6. I remembered
> 2.2.5...
>
> Andrzej Bialecki
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