From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 09:32:09 2003 Return-Path: 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 5875D37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web11101.mail.yahoo.com (web11101.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED66843F93 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iyn74@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030428163206.49430.qmail@web11101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [217.220.222.9] by web11101.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:32:06 PDT Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:32:06 -0700 (PDT) From: pierangelo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: I can't install freebsd5.0 on an old 486 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:32:09 -0000 Hi there! First of all: forgive my English!! ;) I'm tring to install on an old 486, with 16mb(!) ram, 33Mhz, 800Mb disk and a VGA video.. /stand/sysinstall seems to hang.. I got the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp image files(and drivers.flp too) from 2 cd's distribution of freebsd5.0, and the other files for a minimun istallation. Started the pc with the first floppy, changed to the 2nd, when asked, and everything seems to be right till I got: "/stand/sysinstall is runnig an init on vty0" [on my 1st console, I think.. on the 2nd got a message from the kernel.. maybe :)]. Then nothing more.. It's not freezed, but even tring every key nothing happens;I can only switch from Alt-F1 to Alt-F2(where pressing Esc I get "no debugger in the kernel". Should I change something before booting? Got a little shell with 10-15 commands.. something about hints? I've tried different hints(just to see what happens) like hints.vt.0.disabled, hints.vt.0.at=, before booting, but nothing changed.. Here is what I see on video: " Uncompressig ... done BTX loader 1.00 btx version is 1.01 console :internal video/keyboard Bios drive A: is disk0 Bios drive B: is disk1 Bios 639KB/15360KB available memory freebsd /i386 bootstrap loader, revision 1.1 (root@holling...ect ... /kernel text=0x258514 data 0x32040 + 0x45b44| please insert MFSroot floppy and press enter " I change the floppy and got the "hit [enter] for booting immediately.. " message, change the floppy and got "booting [/kernel] preloaded elf kernel ..." and a lot of other strings i've not copied. Other two things.. on first console pressing ctrl-t I got: "load:0.52 cmd:sysintall 1[running] 25,45u 289,04s 0% 1068K load:0.90 cmd:sysintall 1[running] 47,55u 354,64s 0% 1068K load:1.10 cmd:sysintall 1[running] 89,32u 989,04s 0% 1068K load:1.00 cmd:sysintall 1[running] 189,43u 1200,87s 1% 1068K load:1.00 cmd:sysintall 1[running] 467,66u 2904,77s 1% 1068k" a b c d e a goes from 0.01 to 1.12 then back to 1.00 constantly b always grows c " " d from 0% to 1% e always 1068K On the 2nd console I got: "DEBUG: ioctl(3,TIOCCONS,NULL) = 0 (success) " and pressing ctrl-t: "load:1.00 not a controlling terminal " I didn't find any kernel configuration menù, as I read on freebsd handbook. Better give up and say goodbye to that old,old pc? thanks in advance, Pierangelo. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com