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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:51:31 -0500
From:      Mark Thomas <thomas@pbegames.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4-STABLE on 386?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20011128114947.01f94060@pbegames.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011128112720.A57322@blackhelicopters.org>
References:  <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net> <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net>

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At 11:27 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
>If it boots, it installs.  :)

I don't think this is true. I had a similar machine I was going to try out 
and ran into the same issues. The list response on questions was more 
memory is required to install.

>On a 386, I'd bet that you have a classic IRQ mismatch.  What sort of
>network card do you have, and how does it show up in
>/var/run/dmesg.boot.
>
>On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
> > Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory?
> > The machine has no cd-rom.
> >
> > It appears to work normally except that the network card won't answer
> > a ping so it goes nowhere.
> >
> > Dennis Mathiasen
> > dennisma@adelphia.net




Mark
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