Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:11:20 -0800 From: Donald Acton <acton@opentext.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How much RAM for 3.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <199903021711.JAA12560@stoner.nsg.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:34:49 GMT." <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B0269CE@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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I too had problems installing 3.1 on a machine with only 8MB of memory. I was doing an NFS install. The point at which the machine hung during the installation (i.e. once it had started copying files to the disk) varied wildly from nearly right away to almost finished. I eventually installed 3.1 by moving the disk to another system and installing from there. With the new system installed everything worked fine when the disk was moved back to the old machine. Since the machine in question is a 33MHz 486SX machine I attributed the problem to something to do with the floating point emulation since that part of the system had given me grief in the past. Based on the comments in the LINT kernel configuration file, and messages in this newsgroup, I built a kernel for this machine that uses the GPL-licensed emulator taken from Linux and have been running that kernel for the past week and a half without problems. Donald Acton acton@opentext.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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