From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 19:24:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB6A106564A for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252B58FC14 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so207682ana.13 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 12:24:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=uLFHgspbT30V2X+s8EpYNvxI1qw/V3Ut0znQqpqAOHA=; b=SrCiYeBid+fbAI0UW/pfZ29j8CHn7tFmwSspEAUNN9/YytFEIMUOXc3LIxhDYdN+yShJCRTUOvq5Ghjjf2sR+9iQOmVBEosdzvpOcQ03OQXqErWGDjLHwmmZ15QqUnkKlFNX2HaWCmBEFHxvTB0V2qtk+rsD4UR6FgactXQ07Ks= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=sP1n675ai+pcgj1tm0cgpHxkcGxpyGSXSIKSl3A3BkxFw3LdQ3FKm06o2FXMvn32QtsDBUt5s9lEChecjG/pbiskxxFmcgCb8YoCAQtvFTdTkWXmKx5TA6PMD9LMxZkSm78LI2FPa/FYXUmZfuKmKyG48plSAVTgHEuO7su7vIA= Received: by 10.100.41.8 with SMTP id o8mr9614185ano.82.1212174008321; Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.106.12 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <582715960805301200s282cf606y4fe1a6920242101@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:00:08 -0400 From: "Eric Mesa" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:41 -0000 On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, wrote: > Message 2: > Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD > > I've just got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm > having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 > MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball > disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just > fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message "Missing > Operating System". > > - > ************************************************** > Wow, this example is getting old! 66Mhz CPU, 16 MB memory? I think I had a computer like this around 15 years ago. I cringe at the thought that anyone is using something like this as their main machine. And FreeBSD 2.1?!? -- Eric Mesa http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com