From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 15 01:25:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA29411 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29280 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA07804; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:21:46 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA12029; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:21:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA11047; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:12:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601150912.KAA11047@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Booting 2.1.0 (or 2.0.5) on Olivetti ECHOS 20 To: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net (Philippe Regnauld) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:12:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601131959.UAA00255@tetard.frmug.fr.net> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Jan 13, 96 08:59:05 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > I got hold of an Olivetti Echos 20 (Portable 486 SX 33/ 4Mb RAM). Only a few 4 MB machines are reported to have successfully booted the 2.1R installation floppy. 5 MB are the required minimum. (People are working on it to get it back to 4.) Perhaps you could add another 4 MB RAM just for installation, or pre-install the hard disk in another machine? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)