From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 0:45: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE4514F6B for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA11889; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:32:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: greg simonoff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ref: Installing on a 486dx4 In-Reply-To: <3851F66E.31E4B9A0@geocities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've installed on a couple of 486 machines. How much memory does it have? I think the requirement for 3.x is 12 megs. Do you have the right disks there? kern.flp and then mfsroot.flp? Annelise On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, greg simonoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to load FreeBSD3.2 > > Here's what happens. I make the Kernel and > the boot floppy. I cold start to the Kernel > floppy and after some probing it > I am eventually told to insert the boot floppy. The > system then does a warm boot, and > as soon as the boot floppy starts it promptly > imforms me that there is no kernal loaded. So > somehow between the time the first floppy is > run and the second floppy is loaded the kernel > has disappeared? But, of course if the kernel was > loaded in memory by the kernel disk and the machine > reboots then how can the second disk find the kernel? > What is supposed to be happening? > > GREG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message