From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 12:04:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA04491 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04480 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:04:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id VAA10349 ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:03:33 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id VAA11064 ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:03:32 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id UAA09777; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:37 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199601151913.UAA09777@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Booting 2.1.0 (or 2.0.5) on Olivetti ECHOS 20 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:13:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601150912.KAA11047@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 10:12:49 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1559 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that J Wunsch said: > Only a few 4 MB machines are reported to have successfully booted the > 2.1R installation floppy. 5 MB are the required minimum. (People are > working on it to get it back to 4.) > > Perhaps you could add another 4 MB RAM just for installation, or > pre-install the hard disk in another machine? I made a new set of floppies with a dramatically cut-down GENERIC kernel (that's why I wanted to do a release...) and it not only boot but it is installed and running fine now. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996