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I believe you have answered your own question below "and at least 5 megs of

RAM to install and 4 megs of RAM to run."

You can either add more memory for the install or setup the drive on
another machine with more memory then move it back to this laptop where it
will run under the 4 megs of ram that you have.
Tom Collins

Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote:

> hmmm tricky one this, and my guess is it should
> probably got to "Questions" anyhow, apologies in
> advance (is there a way to post individual question
> without subscribing, eg. message-board or such-like?)
> but what I am trying it figure out is this:
>
> I have a 486 laptop with 4MB of memory, which is
> obviously borderline hardware to begin with, but it
> was a donation with some other nice built-in hardware,
> except for the memory shortage.
>
> wanted to install straightforward release, 3.3 or 3.4,
> which I have on floppies already, but the machine is
> rebooting just before reaching the MFSROOT config
> screen, (just after the message <<press enter to boot
> now, or any key for command prompt>> has appeared and
> as soon as I hit enter)
>
> i am guessing the shortage of memory is high on list
> of  possible issues so i checked latest info at
> <<
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT
> >>
>
> which said
> <<
> FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run
> (sorry, there is no
> support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of
> RAM to install
> and 4 megs of RAM to run. >>
>
> which would be fine once I got the thing installed.
>
> in the absence of other options, would I be able to
> install a 2.2x release for example, and then upgrade
> to 3.3 or 3.4 without the memory issue stepping in ??
>
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