From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 24 14:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20123 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20103 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28769; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:54:33 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id QAA04567; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:54:01 -0600 Message-ID: <19980124165401.04605@right.PCS> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:54:01 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Pablo Quintana Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It keeps rebooting during installation References: <199801241637.QAA29647@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <199801241637.QAA29647@miraf-server2.hondutel.hn>; from Pablo Quintana on Jan 01, 1998 at 04:37:17PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Jan 01, 1998 at 04:37:17PM -0600, Pablo Quintana wrote: > Hi, I`ve recently tried to put FreeBSD to work on a 486 33 MHz but when > booting from the floppy disk makes a routine check and restart the > machine. > CPU Intel 486 33 MHz > LAN NE2000 compatible adapter > CONNER 85 MB HDD > 1.44 Floppy Disk Drive > VGA Monitor > 4 MB RAM ^^^^^^^^ FreeBSD will not install itself on 4MB machines; there isn't enough memory to uncompress everything from the install disk. It _will_ run on these machines, it just won't install itself. I'd suggest temporarily installing a little bit more RAM for install purposes, or putting the hard drive in another machine temporarily and installing FreeBSD from there. -- Jonathan