From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 12:31:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D22837B4C5 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id e9SJVBr25001; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:31:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Nils Holland Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could it be the memory? In-Reply-To: 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 You need at least 12 meg RAM to install. Once you've got FreeBSD installed, you can actually run on less, but you definitely require at least 12 meg to do a fresh install from sysinstall. Ken On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Nils Holland wrote: > Hi! > Well, today I got hold of a user 486-SX computer with 4 MB RAM. I thought > I'd get another 4 MB so that I have 8 MB in total, and then I'd install > FreeBSD on it. I was already looking forward to building that little > "test" machine, but before I could start I ran into a problem: > > When I try to boot from the 3.4-RELEASE install disks, first everything > works fine. After reading from the MFS-root disk, the counter starts > counting down before it starks booting the kernel (or, as it is with the > install boot disks, the kernel configure dialog). Now, when the counter > has reached 0 or I press ENTER, the config dialog does not > appear! Instead, the machine reboots! Not so nice, actually! > > Ok, I thought maybe the installed 4 MB are too little RAM, so I wanted to > put some more RAM into the machine. That plan was cancelled, however, when > after opening the box I realized that there are some tiny little 30-pin > SIMMS inside - and I only have some 72-pin pieces here. > > Well, what now? I could buy some used RAM to put into that machine - but > I'm not even sure that the problem is really related to memory! When > booting the machine, it says it has in total 3712 KB inside. Shouldn't > that *just* enough to test FreeBSD? > > So, any suggestions anybody? Can you imagine that too little RAM is really > the problem? Or do you think it's probably more likely something else. I > already tried changing some settings in the BIOS (well, actually not much > can be set there) and it didn't solve the problem. > > I wouldn't mind if I don't get that machine running - after all I got it > basically for free. But another FreeBSD box, no matter how slow, would > still be fine ;-) > > Greetings, > Nils Holland > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Nils Holland > NightCastle Productions * http://www.nightcastleproductions.org > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message