From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 23:07:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA25936 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 23:07:18 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA25929 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 23:07:15 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA03771 ; Sat, 15 Jul 95 02:06:59 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sWzdH-0004pHC; Sat, 15 Jul 95 01:19 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: [resend] my screwy setup To: alien@PrimeNet.Com Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 01:19:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507142031.NAA29051@mailhost.primenet.com> from "Allen Williams" at Jul 14, 95 01:26:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 768 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Allen Williams wrote: > I have a very simple system I want to run freebsd on to play with, > but its not cooperating. :( it's a 386-20 with 1mb of ram above the > base 640k, cga, a standard mfm controller that runs two drives (one > 80mb and one 40mb), and a 1.44 floppy. This is not enough memory to run any flavor of unix that I am aware of. Use at least 4 MB and try again. > i couldnt find much help in the docs about systems > that suck so bad it makes it hard to setup! :) You know, Allen, this is not the best approach to use when asking people to help you. -- Jan Isley Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson