From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 22: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D2237B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:04:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1S64BE82928; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:04:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <030901c0a14c$67277740$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Josh Paetzel" , , References: <31.11101228.27cde862@aol.com> <00e401c0a213$1f20de60$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me err msg Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:04:53 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now I don't profess to be a guru, but I was certain there were only 5 BSD flavours (a)FreeBSD (b)OpenBSD (c)NetBSD (d)picoBSD (e)BSDi Whats with this "linux BSD" ?? I don't believe its possible to "install" any recent BSD in a system with only 8Mb RAM .... possibly the same for the linuxes too. I know the thing "might" run when install is finished but the question here related to initial install. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Paetzel" To: ; Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install or give me err msg > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:36 PM > Subject: HeLP!!! i am trying to install bsd linux and it wont install > or give me err msg > > > FreeBSD Support, > I am an experienced UNIX user but new to LINUX and BSD. > I am trying to install a new version I got at the LINUX Expo in NYC in > Feb2001 > onto an old 486/dx33 gateway PC with a Sony CDROM drive and 15" SVGA > monitor > with 8 MB ram and 405 MB hard-drive. > The initial config installer sees all the devices except for my Sony > CDROM > drive. > I get to the final point where I hit return and I tell it to reformat > my > hard-drive > and install the LINUX Os from the CDROM drive and all I see is a blue > screen > with > a white cursor in lower left corner. If I hit the num_lock key I get > to a DOS > prompt > screen that says the following: ... it spits out a line a second and > it runs > off the monitor and never changes or stops ... infinite loop ... > pid 12 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space. > > Whatever help or links you could email me would be helpful and greatly > appreciated. > Thanks! > Andrew. > > supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW > writing > support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. > The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: > > cd - SCSI interface (includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) > > matcd - Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary > interface > (562/563 models) > > scd - Sony proprietary interface (all models) > > acd - ATAPI IDE interface > The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but > > > I guess I am a little confused. Are you trying to install Linux or > FreeBSD? > > Josh > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message