From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 13:23:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BDF137B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 46617 invoked by uid 100); 10 Nov 2000 21:23:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14860.26456.683.867717@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:23:35 -0600 (CST) To: "Potchanat Samermit" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks In-Reply-To: <37107678@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Potchanat Samermit types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't send HTML to the list, even (or especially) if you send plain text along as well - it's considered rude. Some people are using mail readers that don't handle HTML, others are reading the digest, whichi loses the information needed to decode the thing. > 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.=20 The most common reason for this is that you FTP'ed the floppies in text mode instead of binary mode on a DOS box. That turns all the newlines into carriage return newlines, making them to big. > 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.=20 > > I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better = > choice but will be the same HD. I've seen the claim that you need more than 4MB of ram to install, but not run, FreeBSD.