Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel Herring
Hi all, thanks for your input. For now, I have upgraded the machine to 4.7, but I am still interested in getting 5.0 installed... > > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD > > Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x (oops... the machine is only a P133... :)

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > > Here's the situation: > > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD > > Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x > Your best bet is to put more memory in and se

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread taxman
On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > Here's the situation: > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x Your best bet is to put more memory in and see how that goes first. next, try to get -current

Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread Daniel Herring
Here's the situation: Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Current OS: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE Desired OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE I downloaded and copied "kern.flp" and "mfsroot.flp" onto two freshly-formatted floppies (no errors). Boot the machine. It loads both floppies, starts the kernel, pre