From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 12:46: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC8F37B405 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0EKjVC10144 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:45:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09976 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:45:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 52073 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jan 2002 20:45:29 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:45:29 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Erin Fortenberry Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 on Low Memory Computer Message-ID: <20020114204528.GA52061@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Erin Fortenberry , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:38:59PM -0800, Erin Fortenberry wrote: > >On 2002-01-13 17:42:23, Dustin C. wrote: > > I have a computer that is old. It has something like 8-11MB of RAM (It > > cannot hold anymore). FreeBSD installs just fine. But when I try to > > boot, I get an error saying something like "/kernel not found" and > > thats as far as it goes. Does anyone know how I could get it to work? > > > When you do get it installed remember this, I installed 4.3-R on a P75 with > 8MB RAM and a 850Mb HDD and it took me almost 4 days to compile a kernel. A > friend of mine asked why I didn't just add some more memory, well because I > wanted to see how long it would take and see if it had any problems. It > didn't and it did get more RAM in the long run. 4 days for just the kernel ??! That is slow. I have a 386sx/33 with 8MB RAM and it can compile a kernel in a matter of *hours*, not days. (A complete make world+kernel takes just short of 5 days.) (This is for 4.4-STABLE) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message