On 2012-02-20, Francesco Cardi <cardifrance...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was responding to a followup mail, not directly about your problem > > ah ok ;) > > >>> The problem that is annoying the bios, maybe >> >> Normally the 'CHECK AND RESET THE DATE' message is non-fatal >> and only prints once. >> >> Did you read Nick's message about memory? > > Yes I read everything, so the problem is that OpenBSD requires minimum > 32 MB RAM? >
This problem *may* be lack of RAM but even if you get past this, the machine won't be very useful running OpenBSD. In particular I can't imagine a constantly swapping years-old laptop drive is going to last very long... Nick wrote: << I'm not sure if the RAM is the reason the "Check and reset the date" error is repeating, but 16M just won't cut it for i386 in 2012. >>
