Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:26:23 -0800 From: "Brent Bowman" <bbowman@vistacraft.com> To: bob88@eng.ufl.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot Message-ID: <12020443.48379@webbox.com>
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Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. I looked around a little, how would I find a skinnier version of FreeBSD for this old box. Also, does anybody have any ideas (besides ebay) on how I would find some really old 60ns SIMMS for that box for cheap? Thanks so far, you've been quite responsive. Brent >--- Original Message --- >From: Bob Johnson <bob88@eng.ufl.edu> >To: bbowman@vistacraft.com >Date: 2/12/04 11:43:38 AM > 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... > >- Bob > > > >
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