From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 22:29:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9B814D95 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA83816; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:29:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Kent Stewart Cc: Geoff Jukema , Andrew Johns , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 CD installation hangs In-Reply-To: <376BD65F.84817C21@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > You might consider doing a send-pr on the issue. I have asked how to get > the requirement upgraded and do a send-pr was the response. I have > thought about doing that but my smallest simm is 8MB and that makes my > minimum memory installation 16MB. I can't personally do a send-pr > because I can't make it fail in my environment. A send-pr would get the > documentation upgraded. We already have docs/11852 open on it. I think I'll fix the Handbook reference and bounce by a patch to Jordan for the sysinstall docs. > It wouldn't be so bad if the installer had produced an insufficient > memory message as you suggested. It simply hangs or produces some other > non-descript failure. You have to find out about the real memory > requirements from a current user. Agreed. Someone's not checking their error codes. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message