I can't install freebsd5.0 on an old 486

[Andy Farkas]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, John Murphy wrote:

> pierangelo <iyn74 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >  I'm tring to install on an old 486, with 16mb(!)
> >ram, 33Mhz, 800Mb disk
> >and a VGA video..
> >
> >  /stand/sysinstall seems to hang..
> >     Better give up and say goodbye to that old,old pc?
>
> Not necessarily.  FreeBSD-5.0 is very new and the kernel has debugging
> features built in which may cause difficulty with just 16M memory.
>
> You could try putting more memory in, or try FreeBSD-4.8.
>

The 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies work fine on my 486 with 16MB RAM.

Disconnect the hard disk drive and see if that works...

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        Andy Farkas
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