Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 21:23:59 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@clark.net>, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: originally a newsgroup post, but news server here isn't working Message-ID: <3507.803190239@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 1995 02:32:48 BST." <1394.803179968@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>
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In message <1394.803179968@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wr ites: >This *is* with the latest 2.0.5R "UPDATES" boot floppy? As Gary >announced on the <announce@FreeBSD.org> mailing list, we initially >made a mistake with 4MB machines and overflowed our maximum allowable >kernel size. Gary pared things back down again at the last moment and >stuck a boot boot floppy in place. If it's still dying WITH that >floppy, then we definitely want to know about it as it means that the >problem hasn't been fixed! Just to let people know, the new boot floppy DOES work - I've just installed 2.0.5-RELEASE (from an updated floppy) on a 4Mb 486DX2 66 with an Adaptec 1540C card WITHOUT PROBLEM. However, it does have a 4Gb hard drive (it's one of our CDROM burner boxes, so it needs lots of disk space to hold CDROM images), so I gave it 32Mb swap space. If I can find a machine which I can spam a lot without affecting peoples work here, I'll see what the minumum swap you can have on a 4Mb machine is without sysinstall falling over. N.B. As I know the install system BACKWARDS, I didn't reference (i.e. look at) any docs. This may be a crucial point as the way the docs are loaded is, err, interesting. Gary
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