From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 5 13:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9C737BBB2 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5FBCE9B17; Fri, 5 May 2000 16:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52324BA1E; Fri, 5 May 2000 16:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 16:11:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@pawn.primelocation.net To: mi@privatelabs.com Cc: Aleksey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem bootimg [free|pico]bsd at 386sx In-Reply-To: <200005052007.QAA52363@misha.privatelabs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 May 2000 mi@privatelabs.com wrote: > On 5 May, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > =3D On Fri, 5 May 2000, Aleksey wrote: > =3D=20 > =3D > Greetings! > =3D >=20 > =3D > I have a 386sx with 4mb of mem, floppy. > =3D > trying to boot from freebsd 3.=C8 install floppies and/or picobsd. > =3D >=20 > =3D=20 > =3D See INSTALL.TXT: > =3D=20 > =3D FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, there is no > =3D support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to install > =3D and 4 megs of RAM to run..... > =3D=20 > =3D Sounds like you are 1 meg short. >=20 > Should not PicoBSD still work? >=20 > In any case, I think, it is possible to build a customized version of > kernel (less drivers, no PCI/EISA) and it may fit... But you'll have > to build on some other machine. >=20 In the case of PicoBSD, you will probably have to trim the kernel as much as possible... ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message