From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 18:43:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA29159 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 18:43:43 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29148 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 18:43:38 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA02539; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:37:38 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511070237.CAA02539@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: installing freeBSD To: Mittomonai@aol.com Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 02:37:38 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <951106195421_14599871@emout05.mail.aol.com> from "Mittomonai@aol.com" at Nov 6, 95 08:17:19 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 876 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mittomonai@aol.com stands accused of saying: > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a AST 100 MHZ pentium machine running > windows 95. I created a boot disk, but when I start my computer with the > boot disk in I get some messages about expanding the kernal and then the > computer just hangs. This is not the very long pause reffered to in the You either have only 4M of memory (a crime for a 100MHz p5), or a bad motherboard chipset. Have you tried disabling all caching yet? > Tony Hall -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[