Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:17:21 -0600 From: "Potchanat Samermit" <psamermit2@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks Message-ID: <000801c04b29$532a3030$6907b318@c454454a>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] FreeBSD forerunners: I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 without a CD. I am trying to find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this machine. However, (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images for the floppies are too big for the diskettes. My machine has only 160 MB harddrive and 4MB Ram. Don't know if I can upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start with something minimal first until I have more money to buy a good machine for it. I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better choice but will be the same HD. Can someone help guide me through? I have been at this for quite some times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One day I will be able to help others too. Thank you very much. Potchanat Samermit [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FreeBSD forerunners:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am new to Unix/BSD. I have an old 486 without a CD. I am trying to find my way to install a FreeBSD version into this machine. However, (unclearly) following the instructions on your site, the images for the floppies are too big for the diskettes. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My machine has only 160 MB harddrive and 4MB Ram. Don't know if I can upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start with something minimal first until I have more money to buy a good machine for it. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better choice but will be the same HD.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone help guide me through? I have been at this for quite some times and think I have run to an end. Need help. One day I will be able to help others too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you very much.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Potchanat Samermit</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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