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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Reinstalling FreeBSD problems
Date: 6 Jul 1994 16:51:00 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
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Message-ID: <2vendk$62e@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <sfurber.5.000E0761@rip.psg.com>,
Steven Furber <sfurber@rip.psg.com> wrote:
>I am having problems reinstalling FreeBSD on my machine. ("My machine" being
>an 486DX2 with an Adaptec 1542C SCSI host adapter and a 1025mb Fujitsu drive.)
>
>When I originally installed FreeBSD my machine only had 4mb of ram. Since then
>I have upgraded to 16mb. My original installation seemd to work pretty well.
....
>Anyone have any ideas why I can't re-install? The only difference in harware
>between my first installation and the re-instalation is the 16mg.
Sounds like you have bad memory or misconfigured hardware (check out
your BIOS configuration). Multi-tasking systems beat memory up pretty
hard and tend to make bad hardware show up pretty quickly.
Nate
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