From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 06:02:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA12951 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 06:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12866 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 06:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id PAA28414; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:01:24 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (OAA03031); Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:24:03 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199606071424.OAA03031@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Installation question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:24:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: lockwood@csus.edu In-Reply-To: <199606070752.AAA28132@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeremy Lockwood" at Jun 7, 96 00:52:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am attempting to install freebsd on an older platform. It is a homebuilt > conglomeration of a 486dx-33 isa m/b with 4 megs, a tseng labs et4000 video --------------------------------------------^ > card and a 120meg hd with about 35 megs of data on a dos partition. the > boot.flp runs what appears to be a successful probe of the system (although > I think it gets the HD geometry wrong) the crashes after the line You need 5 megs to install. (After it, 4 is enough, but not for the install) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky