From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 7:39:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062FA37B413 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02540 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:39:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05350 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:39:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 37369 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Aug 2001 14:38:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:38:59 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Dabke Parag Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting problem with Install Boot Disks Message-ID: <20010820163859.A37357@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Dabke Parag , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010820142509.47442.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010820142509.47442.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:25:09AM -0700, Dabke Parag wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2. PC configuration > is > Pentium 60, 8 MB ram, 630 MB hard disk. Here is the problem. FreeBSD 3.4 and later requires more than 8MB RAM to install. It can run with 8MB RAM but not install. You need at least 12 or 16 MB RAM (not sure which) to install 4.x There are basically two solutions: a) Install more memory in the computer. b) Install an older version of FreeBSD first and then upgrade. (FreeBSD 3.2 can be installed with only 8 MB RAM, I am not sure about 3.3.) Option a) is the best if you can get the memory. [snip] > > Currently I have W95 and it uses complete hard disk. I > want to replace it with FreeBSD. Is it possible to > install FreeBSD so that it will replace W95 or I have > to first delete W95 partition and then install > FreeBSD? You have to replace the W95 partition with a FReeBSD partition, but this can be done with FreeBSD's installation program. Thus, there is no need to do it before you start the installation. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message