----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramiro Aceves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "freebsd-questions-en" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:22 AM
Subject: Confirmed: 5.3 installation do not work with 16 MB RAM
snipHello FreeBSD friends.
In previous post I told you that I was unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 in an old Pentium 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM, with the three floppies (FreeBSD 4.10 installs well). After the daemon screen, the system rebooted just before loading the kernel. That strange behaviour made me try everything at the boot loader prompt along several weeks, without success. In the floppies directory of the 5.3 installation CDROM states that FreeBSD can be installed with at least 8MB RAM:
************************ 1.2 Hardware Requirements
FreeBSD for the i386 requires a 486 or better processor to install and run(although FreeBSD can run on 386 processors with a custom kernel) and at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run.
***************************
I read on the internet that some people could not install FreeBSD 5.3 in 16 MB, needing as much as 24 MB to success. I think I have confirmed that. A couple of days before, I received from a friend another "fast machine" ;-), it was a pentium 75 MHz with 32 MB RAM. I tried to remove the memory bank from the pentium75 to the pentium100, but this kind of memory did not work on the later one.( it did not like EDO RAM). :-(
So I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the Pentium 75 machine flawlessly, everything went fine. Then I removed two 8MB banks, so that the machine was 16 MB RAM. I tried the install floppies, and YES!!!, it rebooted before the kernel load.
So FreeBSD can not be installed with floppies and 16 MB RAM. I needs more. How much? I do not know, 32MB work here, but I can not test 24 MB.
I think the files on the manuals should be corrected to avoid this kind of issues.
Whell, that is the story, although I have not been able to get Xorg work on this machine, but you will know that in the next post to the list.
Thanks Ramiro Aceves
i two had the same issues of not getting freebsd 4.9 , 4.10 or 5.3 installed and running with 16 meg of ram on an old 233 box that i whanted to use as a firewall/router .. so i put 32 in it and it works just fine with 5.3-stable _______________________________________________
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