Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:31:31 -0500 (EST) From: matthew <matthew@netway.com> To: Brent Bowman <bbowman@vistacraft.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Re: Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot Message-ID: <20040212162843.Y57486@admin1.mdc.net> In-Reply-To: <12020443.48379@webbox.com> References: <12020443.48379@webbox.com>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote: > > Oh boy, I guess that I've either got to find more RAM, find an > older/stripped down version of FreeBSD, or give up. > Well, if i was you i would get on the phone and call every household that you think has a basement full of junk. They will more than likely have an old computer down there you can take the ram from. > I looked around a little, how would I find a skinnier version > of FreeBSD for this old box. Did you try 3.5-RELEASE and cvsup to stable? I still run 3.4 and 3.5. > > Also, does anybody have any ideas (besides ebay) on how I would > find some really old 60ns SIMMS for that box for cheap? > > If you were standing right next to me I would throw some at you :P Are you in some strange region where it is difficult to find old ram? I am sure a second hand pc shop will gladly give you 32mb ram (come in pairs) for 5 bucks. 10 at most. m > 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=99" > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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