From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 11:28:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7789B37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5060118B9; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:52:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479B718B8; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:52:11 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:52:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Mark Banschbach Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation headaches In-Reply-To: <20010119191801.26890.qmail@web3602.mail.yahoo.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 > I have an old.. 386 which has 4 megs of RAM.. I have > been attempting for the last number of days to install > FreeBSD on this computer and with limited success.. > I have tried both the Linux DD install and the DOS > FDIMAGE install and have gotten the same results both > times. Here is what happens: What version of FreeBSD are you installing? Everything past 3.2 or so needs 12 megs to install and 5 (?) megs at a minimum to run on. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message