From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 22:12:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA23956 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA23951 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA00540; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:12:08 -0700 (PDT) To: "John McBride" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD 2.2.2 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:07:16 EDT." <199708140416.AAA08928@foo.icanect.net> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 22:12:08 -0700 Message-ID: <536.871535528@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 1. If you'd read the docs, you'd see that 4MB installation is not supported. You must have at least 5MB of RAM to install the system. 2. Please don't send stuff like this to -hackers; it is the WRONG mailing list and that is what freebsd-questions is for. Thank you for your cooperation. Jordan > hey guys, > > HELP!!! > > i have a 486 with 4 megs of ram, am i am trying to install freeBSD from > floppies. but after i create my boop floppie with FDIMAGE.exe i boot up get > to a kernel config screen, i clean up the confilcts and then get out, well > after that it goes through botting but it hangs when it gets to "APMo > diabled, not probed" the system just sits there!!!! > > am i doing something wrong, can you please help me, please email before > 5:00 PM at jmcbride@nbhd.ord after 5:00pm jonnimac@icanect.net > > > thanks a lot > > please hurry > > > jonnimac@icanect.net > jmcbride@nbhd.org