From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 28 9:27:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED7137B419 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fASHRX857759; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:33 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Mark Thomas Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011128122733.A57733@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011128112720.A57322@blackhelicopters.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20011128114947.01f94060@pbegames.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011128114947.01f94060@pbegames.com>; from thomas@pbegames.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:51:31AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG True. What I should have said was, "If it boots after the install, you have enough." It sounded as if he got it running, but the network card doesn't work... On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:51:31AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: > At 11:27 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > >If it boots, it installs. :) > > I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going to try out > and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more > memory is required to install. > > >On a 386, I'd bet that you have a classic IRQ mismatch. What sort of > >network card do you have, and how does it show up in > >/var/run/dmesg.boot. > > > >On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: > > > Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory? > > > The machine has no cd-rom. > > > > > > It appears to work normally except that the network card won't answer > > > a ping so it goes nowhere. > > > > > > Dennis Mathiasen > > > dennisma@adelphia.net > > > > > Mark > --- > thomas@pbegames.com -------------> http://www.pbegames.com/~thomas > Play by Electron Games ----------> http://www.pbegames.com > [TM4463-ORG] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message