Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:48:37 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1? Message-ID: <44F11615.1050902@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20060827034652.ad43299b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20060827034652.ad43299b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hello, > > I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd, > floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired > nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD > 4.9-release installed a long time, and was recently upgraded to > 4.11-release from CD, sucessfully. > > However, I would like better pccard support, ie. 32 bit cardbus and > wireless network cards, so I would like to install 6.1-release (or > -stable) on it. However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it > boots as far as loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then > reboots again?? Try turning off all power management and plug-and-play support in the BIOS and booting FreeBSD without ACPI. Try combinations of these three things. Often older hardware has really broken APM/ACPI support that makes FreeBSD do odd things. Failing that, you may need to build a custom kernel with just the minimum required to get yourself to a shell prompt. You can build a new kernel with cardbus, usb and other extras after you get FreeBSD installed. -- Darren Pilgrim
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