Marty Landman wrote:
On 5/8/06, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marty Landman wrote:
> I've just reinstalled FBSD 4.8 from the mini-iso on an old box (PII-133
> w/ 3
> GB on two hd's). The problem I'm running into is that my ports are
looking
> for old, outdated packages, I think.
If you have enough RAM, go ahead and install 5.4 or 6.0 (or soon enough,
6.1
).
Hi Greg. My issue is that would like to continue using this box and -
possibly because of the age of the cdrom - am having a problem installing
with my 6.0 iso too. :(
This box has 82M of ram, forgot to mention that. And it is running 4.8 with
just about nothing on it, and it is networked with my office broadband
connection.
So, is there a simple way I could install over the net? And how high a
release could I go? Obviously I won't be putting X windows on there but
if I
can get Apache w/ mod_perl, Samba, Mysql and Perl it'll be a useful machine
for my intranet. I had all that on before but apparently 4.8 isn't going to
work for me now unless I have a time machine.
That's plenty of RAM for basic installation and modest non-GUI
usage. I've no idea how much RAM Samba and MySQL might need to
thrive though. If you ran them before, you should be able to keep
doing that.
According to the fine manual, you should be able to boot from a
floppy and install 6.0 over FTP. It's just like installing from CD,
only slower, generally . See section 2.2.7 of:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
I'd try re-toasting the 6.0 ISO myself. Use the slowest burn speed
available on your burner -- older CD-ROMs sometimes have a problem
with discs burned at a high speed.
--
Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
South Central Library System (SCLS)
Library Interchange Network (LINK)
<gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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