Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:58:05 -0700 From: Laszlo Vagner <jason@vagner.com> To: Hank Wethington <bsd@info-logix.com> Cc: freebsd <george@vagner.com>, Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, Rob Wilkinson <Chains@Ultranet.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Message-ID: <396EC80D.57C28DC3@vagner.com> References: <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIGEPMCHAA.bsd@info-logix.com>
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I remember a thread saying that a minimum for 3.x branch was 12 meg and 5 for 2.2x. I guess things have changed a bit since then. coming from the handbook. In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of eight megabytes of RAM is suggested. Sixteen megabytes is the preferred amount of RAM as you may have some trouble with anything less than sixteen depending on your hardware. Hank Wethington wrote: > Sorry to disagree... > > I have a 486/66 with 8 mb ram and 800 mb drive running 3.4 just fine. It is > actually running NAT for my DSL and 4 other computers, ncFTPd for ftp, Qmail > for SMTP and POP, SSH for remote logins, xntpd for keeping time correct. The > machine has now been up over 30 days. I rebooted to clear apache, it wasn't > running well with all the others with such limited resources. :) > > Hank > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of freebsd > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:57 PM > To: Josh Paetzel; Rob Wilkinson; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Installation on a 486-2/66 > > i believe you need more ram minimum of 12 meg to install 3.0 and above > although 2.2.8 will do it with 5 meg. > > No 2 things can be the same, they cannot > exist in the same space at the same time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 3:00 AM > To: Rob Wilkinson; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Wilkinson" <Chains@Ultranet.ca> > To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:13 AM > Subject: Installation on a 486-2/66 > > > I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. > > > > My System: > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > 486 DX2/66 > > 8MB of RAM > > ISA Western Digital 340MB hardrive > > Motherboard: 452S (with VL-BUS) > > > > Disk Configuration: > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > 40MB DOS partition including the minimal install files > > in directory C:\FreeBSD\BIN > > > > The other partition is allocated to FreeBSD > > > > The Problem: > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > After first going through the "OPTIONS" feature in the install, > > I selected install from MS-DOS partition 1. This works OK! > > > > Next when the installation setup program asked me to FDISK, > > I selected the unused partition for FreeBSD, created and set the > > slice as bootable. This works OK! > > > > For setup, i selected "A" for automatically configure the directories. > > This worked ok! > > > > **FINALLY, when it began installing from MS-DOS, it gets to about > > 9% (chunk 12 of 130) and it just sits there! My original install from > > the > > floppies (27 diskettes), would have the same problems (which is why > > I decided to install from MS-DOS on the same hardrive). I noticed that > > once i was able to install all the way up to 35% from diskette before > > the > > setup program decided to freeze. By hitting CTRL-ALT-DELETE after > > freezing, sometimes it would continue installing. But recently it just > > starts > > re-installing the entire bin distribution after it gives me a read > > failure message. > > > > I have attempted to install FreeBSD many times but have been stopped at > > the same problem. Could you give me any insight as to why I would > > have this problem? Should i purchase the FreeBSD distribution CD > > and install from there? > > > > Where is the copy of FreeBSD that you have from? It sounds to me like the > copy you have may be corrupted. I would give up on the floppy install, as > it is pretty hard to make that many floppies without there being some kind > of error on one of them. > > Josh > > > Thanks, > > Rob > > > > > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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