On Sunday 27 August 2006 09:13, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 03:46:52 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd, > > ... > > >However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it boots as far as > >loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then reboots again?? > > The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked. > Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB (though > not very happily). I strongly suggest you find a SODIMM to expand it.
A friend of mine installed 6.1 successfully on a pentium with 48MB ram. It runs quite well actually :) He didn't try to to install X however. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
