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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 1995 11:06:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM
Cc:        pgr95@ciunix.uc.pt, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199510251806.LAA24253@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510251336.GAA02517@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 25, 95 06:36:27 am

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> 
> >Hello.
> >
> >  I am from University of Coimbra and I've just got Free BSD package to
> > install in my computar at home but I've had some problems. I have a 386 DX
> > (40 MHz) computer (4 MegaBytes - RAM) with a Maxtor hard disk and a Super
> > I/O card. My computer doesn't have a numeric coprocessor (I don't if it is
> > necessary). I tried to install FreeBSD from floppies but the first menu
> > didn't even apeared nor i could get into the configuration prompt. At the
> > boot process the computer always stop at the following point:
> 
>    Unfortunately, the current installation floppies haven't been working on
> machines with only 4MB of RAM. If you can add any additional memory (even just
> 1MB more), your system should then work okay with FreeBSD.
Once you have installed you can take the memory out again..
(so maybe borrow some for 1 day :)

> 
> -DG
> 




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