From owner-freebsd-small Mon Sep 2 7: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA0937B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 535B743E42 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 6085 invoked by uid 1031); 2 Sep 2002 13:59:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:59:17 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: "Rev. Jonathan T Sage" Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 486 / 8MB and a MFS/MD Mount Problem Message-ID: <20020902135917.GD2409@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , "Rev. Jonathan T Sage" , freebsd-small@freebsd.org References: <20020901152119.52697.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020901152119.52697.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 08:21:19AM -0700, Rev. Jonathan T Sage wrote: > I recently got interested in PicoBSD due to my aquiring a 486/33 laptop with > a dead harddisk. After little consideration, I cam to the conclusion that it > wasn't worth me sinking any money into fixing it's problems, but I am hoping I > can get it running pico off the disk drive (functional) and it will allow me to > ssh into my other machine. 1) Check the memory using the sysutils/memtest port. 2) Consider using CompactFlash with a CF-ATA adapter to give yourself more room for the OS if Pico doesn't do / can't be tweaked to do what you need. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message