From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 19:53:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE4A37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E347943FBF for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1O3rBAw035729; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:53:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:53:11 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: taxman Cc: Daniel Herring , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies In-Reply-To: <200302232211.56493.taxman@acd.net> Message-ID: <20030223195047.E35711@babelfish.pursued-with.net> References: <200302232211.56493.taxman@acd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > > Here's the situation: > > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD > > Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x > Your best bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. > next, try to get -current boot floppies and see if the same error is there. > 5.0 is stil not production material, so re-read the early adopters guide and > be prepared to go to work if you really want 5.0 on this machine. You may be > better off upgrading to 4.7rel or 4.8 when it comes out. FWIW, I've just been fooling with 5.0 on a similar machine; 150P, 32MB ram, 2.0GB. My dmesg looks similar to yours, and the machine boots and runs fine. I don't have a way to reduce memory to 16MB or I'd check for you. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message