From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 27 11: 2:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC3337B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28243 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:02:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14267 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:02:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GAVE8P00.0U7; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:02:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC0E40B.855006FF@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:03:39 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robertj@wirehub.nl Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 available this weekend References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG robertj@wirehub.nl wrote: > > Hi, > > > I suppose there's still a demand for it (older machines, maybe?). > > Yes, my old 386 for example. > > It wil only run 2.2, not 3 or 4 (did not try 5). > > He hangs himself just after mounting the first disk or during his > attempts to do this. > > It does not really matter how I installed it or at what > machine I install or do make buildworld (I cannot wait for a old 386 > to finisch it...:) It's a strange story I try to solve for many weeks. > > Do you happen to know some hardware-support is dropped as of 3.2-R and > later ? Does your 486 only have 4MB of memory? IIRC it was around 3.2 where the requirement went up to 5MB. Nowadays I think 8 is minimum. Unfortunatly, I know how hard it can be to find 2M+ 32 pin SIMMs for all of those 386 and 486 boards that only have 4 SIMM slots. Worse, even when they are installed, you have no guarentee that the system will even let you address that much. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message