Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:49:26 -0800 From: "whitevamp" <whitevamp47@hotmail.com> To: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>, "freebsd-questions-en" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV12387003158829AB4C3673A1880@phx.gbl> References: <41E3A901.7040307@wanadoo.es>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: "freebsd-questions-en" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:22 AM Subject: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM > Hello FreeBSD friends. > > In previous post I told you that I was unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an > old Pentium 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM, with the three floppies (FreeBSD 4.10 > installs well). After the daemon screen, the system rebooted just before > loading the kernel. That strange behaviour made me try everything at the > boot loader prompt along several weeks, without success. In the floppies > directory of the 5.3 installation CDROM states that FreeBSD can be > installed with at least 8MB RAM: > > ************************ > 1.2 Hardware Requirements > > FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and > run(although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a custom kernel) and > at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run. > *************************** > > I read on the internet that some people could not install FreeBSD 5.3 in > 16 MB, needing as much as 24 MB to success. I think I have confirmed that. > A couple of days before, I received from a friend another "fast machine" > ;-), it was a pentium 75 MHz with 32 MB RAM. I tried to remove the memory > bank from the pentium75 to the pentium100, but this kind of memory did not > work on the later one.( it did not like EDO RAM). :-( > > So I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the Pentium 75 machine flawlessly, > everything went fine. Then I removed two 8MB banks, so that the machine > was 16 MB RAM. I tried the install floppies, and YES!!!, it rebooted > before the kernel load. > > So FreeBSD can not be installed with floppies and 16 MB RAM. I needs > more. How much? I do not know, 32MB work here, but I can not test 24 MB. > > I think the files on the manuals should be corrected to avoid this kind of > issues. > > Whell, that is the story, although I have not been able to get Xorg work > on this machine, but you will know that in the next post to the list. > > Thanks > Ramiro Aceves > snip i two had the same issues of not getting freebsd 4.9 , 4.10 or 5.3 installed and running with 16 meg of ram on an old 233 box that i whanted to use as a firewall/router .. so i put 32 in it and it works just fine with 5.3-stable
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