Installation from Floppies

[Ramiro Aceves]

Nick Wilson wrote:
> Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> 
>> Nick Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am trying to install 5.3 from floppies/network and I boot from the 
>>> the three discs (boot, kern1 and kern2).  At the end of this I get 
>>> the FreeBSD 5 boot screen (about 8 options and the character drawing 
>>> of a daemon).  Taking the default option 1 just starts the boot from 
>>> floppies process again - how do I get past this screen to start the 
>>> network setup and install?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Nick
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>> Hello, just curious, how much memory do you have?
>> It is not possible to install 5.3 on a 16 MB machine.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ramiro.
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> That explains it - thanks.
> 
> Nick
> 

If you can add up to 24 MB it should work fine.
You can see the problem report PR docs/77304  I submitted. You can see 
there good explanations of the reasons of the problem, by expert people.

Good luck.
Ramiro.