From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 22:33:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A0A16A400 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6146B13C46E for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so769151uge for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:33:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jvn/C9MOR/aZia7id2hs69q5AsFRgQlx7ck6/iymhJKA8A96WtqTmcZ9dc4fVWkAXabBhgcp2p/Z7NwlsXyikOwT/rySAtoUXMhsM+lrwqAlkHaicJ1MRmaiAEoB55PHn9NTCg0tMKjjufdniYtQrhKFNoIM3A1QD+3I3Z6LtUI= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr3814664ugg.1169850816181; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:33:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.111? ( [81.182.8.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 39sm4260217ugb.2007.01.26.14.33.35; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:33:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45BA81BD.9050007@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:33:33 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45BA30CF.9070906@gmail.com> <45BA3868.2020200@gmail.com> <45BA44CE.90501@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <45BA44CE.90501@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:33:37 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > > 8MB RAM > > That's likely the issue, although I don't remember if you've mentioned > exactly when it fails. The installer attempts to create a memory disk > that's a good bit larger than 8MB; IIRC, with current FreeBSD versions > you can't even install on a machine with 16MB RAM - you need 20+MB or so > (which usually means 32MB must be installed). It wouldn't get very far > at all with 8 meg of RAM. Yes that likely explains why the FreeBSD floppies dont work (but some linux versions work). When I install FreeBSD on a machine with 512MB RAM, then move the HDD, the BIOS boots with the "missing OS" error. Supposedly the installation has set the some LBA things (which the newer system perfectly supports). After the installation, how can I change that, before moving the drive?