Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:43:38 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob88@eng.ufl.edu> To: bbowman@vistacraft.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot Message-ID: <402BAD3A.7080009@eng.ufl.edu>
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Warren Block wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: > >>> I get to the end of step "2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386™" where it >>> tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the >>> computer! Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and >>> starts over again. How can I get it to go to the kernel setup? >>> >>> My Hardware: >>> IBM PS/Valuepoint 486 33MHz >>> 8 MB RAM > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is likely the problem. The install needs more than 8M, somewhere > between 12 and 16M last I heard. > > If it helps, I have a Valuepoint 486 DX2/66 with 32M of RAM that runs > 4.8 flawlessly. > I've got 4.9 running on a 486/33 with 20 MB of RAM, so if you can scrape up that much it should be sufficient. It works fine as a personal mail server with Courier, except that the IMAP folders containing over 10,000 messages cause huge amounts of thrashing when I open them. Takes several minutes. It also takes nearly three days to build 4.9 from source on a 486/33... - Bobhelp
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