Thanks all for your replies, For future peoples reference. I managed to scrounge some more ram so it had 16 instead of 8 meg, and it boots prpoerly now. I had forgotten sysinstall needed more than 8MB of ram. I thrown off because it was just rebooting instead of printing an error.
- Fred "Frederick Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given > (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the > mfsroot > floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then > reboots. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"