On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:40:06 +0200 "igor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> System hangs when starting sysinstall :( > > On system with 8Mb of memory, when starting /stand/sysinstall happens > restart. > > > > There is piece of install.txt: > > ============================================================ > > 1.2 Hardware Requirements > > FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, > there is no support for 286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to > install and 4 megs of RAM to run. > > ============================================================ > > So, it must work on system with 16Mb of memory! I don't remember where I read this (I checked the handbook but I couldn't find it): FreeBSD will run with 4M of memory, but sysinstall requires more - I thought it was more than 5M, but still less than 16M... maybe install.txt is out of date? Anyway, you could try this: - take the HDD out of the 16M machine - put it in a machine with more memory - install FreeBSD on it with that machine - put it back in the 16M machine When doing this, be careful about which device the HDD it thinks it is - e.g, if it's the primary master in the machine with 16M of memory, make it the primary master in the other machine too. -Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
