From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 8:34: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5CC37B413 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.208.122]) by mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010924153356.ODCA26461.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:33:56 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Eric Landreville" , Subject: RE: 486 DX33 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:33:36 -0400 Message-ID: <00fb01c1450e$46c419c0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <008f01c143db$df7a0820$2212dc0a@lino.qc.ca> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD probably doesn't like the limited amount of memory. Try going to 20 or 32 Megs. Either one should allow you to get it up and running. --- Andy P.S. Please don't send HTML-ized e-mail to the list -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Eric Landreville Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 11:00 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 486 DX33 Hi , I was trying to install Freebsd on an old 486DX33 my aunt gave me , but when it installs , the computer freezes. Everything works well with my 2 floppies , I also see that the CD is spinning , it begins to copy , but it freezes, I burned another CD , I thought it could be that, but it does the same thing. I spoke about this to some of my friends and they say the problem is my memory. I only got 8 Megs of memory and i think that could be the problem. I was wondering if i had 20 or even 32 megs of memory if freebsd would be running. I don't want to install any X-window component , only the text mode and I'd like to use my Freebsd box as a Web,ftp server and maybe as a gateway for my personal home network. Would I be able to do all those things with my pc if I'd have 20 Megs of Ram. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message