Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-09 Thread daniel quinn
On February 9, 2005 12:09 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:06PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16 > > >should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some > > > form of useful error message

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:06PM +, Mark Ovens wrote: > >well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16 > >should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some form > >of useful error message instead of just rebooting. it just makes no sense. > > >

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-09 Thread Mark Ovens
daniel wrote: On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on > and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing > boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beas

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-08 Thread daniel
On February 8, 2005 01:34 pm, Loren M. Lang wrote: > with no errors if the floppies good. I also have a not of trouble > finding good floppies to boot from. Just keep trying over and over. If > both dd and diff succeed then it's probably something else that's the > matter. I think sometimes flo

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-08 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:52:53PM -0500, daniel wrote: > On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: > > > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on > > > and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing > >

>16MB memory requirement for 5.3 install (Re: cracked out floppy install)

2005-02-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:55:31PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:52:53PM -0500, daniel wrote: > > > >>On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: > >>> > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3REL

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:52:53PM -0500, daniel wrote: > On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: > > > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on > > > and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing > >

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread daniel
On February 7, 2005 10:40 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: > > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on > > and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing > > boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie pr

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, daniel wrote: i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie prompt where it counts down and is *supposed* to run sysinst

Re: cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 07 February 2005 06:07 pm, daniel wrote: > i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer > on and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the > thing boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie > prompt where it counts down and is *sup

cracked out floppy install

2005-02-07 Thread daniel
i've been trying to install freebsd-5.3RELEASE on this old computer on and off for days now. i downloaded the floppies, watched the thing boot and each and every time, it'll get to the little beastie prompt where it counts down and is *supposed* to run sysinst but instead, it just reboots! i e