Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 22:32:04 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: mileena@amanda.dorsai.org (Mileena) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 Install Message-ID: <9507200432.AA01108@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507200153.AA07424@dorsai.dorsai.org> from "Mileena" at Jul 19, 95 09:53:01 pm
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> Hi, I just purchased the FreeBSD disk from Walnut Creek, and I must say > it's a very good operating system. I had encountered 2 problems though. > The first was on an EISA System (HP Vectra) with 52 MB of Ram... the > software only recognized the first 16. # cd /sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC GENERIC.ORG # cat >> GENERIC<EOF options "MAXMEM=13312" # number of 4k pages ^D # config GENERIC # cd ../../compile/GENERIC # make # make install # shutdown -r now > The other problem (which occurred > on several machines) was when I tried to install the X-Windows portion of > the software. It would go through the checksum test, and then just hang, > forcing me to reboot or reinstall everything. Install the X seperately. At least you won't have to reinstall everything that way. We can then pick up from there (probably someone else will be answering that one). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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