Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:13:12 +0200
> Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For information: I'm still trying to find a sodimm card for this
> machine, as everything would be easier if it had more memory.
> We'll see how I manage that; here in No
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Are 16 Megs of RAM to little to install FreeBSD 6.0 or newer?
As others have pointed out, installation via sysinstall
requires at least 24 MB of RAM. So you either have to
prepare your own installation media, or put the harddisk
in a different PC, install FreeBSD there
On Sunday 27 August 2006 09:13, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 03:46:52 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
>
> ...
>
> >However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it boots as far as
> >loading the kernel, botting the
16MB is enough to run FreeBSD for limited applications, with carefully
crafted kernel. It is not enough to run sysinstall. Last I checked,
sysinstall was pushing 24MB in size, with 32MB being really better.
Warner
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:13:12 +0200
Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For information: I'm still trying to find a sodimm card for this
machine, as everything would be easier if it had more memory.
We'll see how I manage that; here in Norway it is not so easy to find
things like that, and trans
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
> floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
> nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD 4.9-release
> installed a long time, and was re
On 8/27/06, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000
>Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I
>> checked.
>
>And I guess that the flo
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000
>Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I
>> checked.
>
>And I guess that the floppies work in the same way?
Yes.
>> Once you have Fr
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I
> checked.
And I guess that the floppies work in the same way?
> Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB
> (though not very happily).
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:44:24 -0500
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you know it has CardBus / PCMCIA 2.1 / JEIDA 4.2? have you
> checked? This standard was introduced in 1995.
I don't *know* it, but all evidence seems to point in that
direction. :-)
Quote from chapter 7 of the
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 03:46:52 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
...
>However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it boots as far as
>loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then reboots again??
The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk an
On 8/26/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/26/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
> floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
> nor wireless. It does have PC
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Hello,
I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD
4.9-release installed a long time, and was recently upgraded t
On 8/26/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD 4.9-release
installed a long tim
Hello,
I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired
nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD 4.9-release
installed a long time, and was recently upgraded to 4.11-release from
CD, suces
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