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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New Install of 2.1 needs diagnosis please
Date: 24 Nov 1995 22:49:40 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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Message-ID: <495i64$oc0@times.tfs.com>
References: <pmacfarl.13.00B23681@peinet.pe.ca>
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In article <pmacfarl.13.00B23681@peinet.pe.ca>, <pmacfarl@peinet.pe.ca> wrote:
:Peoples:
:
:I am having problems with my first attempt to load FreeBSD. This is a fairly
:standard 386DX-40 system that I threw together. There is not much to go wrong
:here (I think!). It has:
:
:Juko ET 386DX W/B Motherboard
:Maxtor 120 Meg hard drive
:Trident VGA (running in mono mode)
:A standard ISA multi I/O card with IDE, floppy, etc.
:3 1/2" disk
:4 Megs of 80 ns SIMMs
under 2.1 you need at least 5MB for the install..
borrow 4MB from a friend, do the install
and give it back when you're done..
the reason is that the install loads a 'MEMORY DISK' inorder to be able
to do it's job without relying on the disks that it may be clobbering
during the install..
THEORETICALLY we should be able to make it run in 4MB
but there's something we're overlooking and there wasn't time
to fix it.....
:
:Installed were also an 8 bit Sound Blaster compatible and an NE1000 card, but
:these were removed for the process of elimination. I had a system hang with
:version 2.0.5. With 2.1.0 I am glad to say that I get more information. Here
:is the end panic dump:
:
:Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
:Fault virtual address = 0x0
:fault code= supervisor read, page not present
:instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf018c82d
:code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type ox1b
: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
:processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
:current process = 1 (swapper)
:interrupt mask = net tty bio
:panic: page fault
:
:Can anyone shed some light on this situation? Has some memory gone bad?
:This PC dual-boots using IBM's Boot Manager and works fine on the DOS
:configuration. Your assistance would surely be appreciated. FreeBSD seems
:to be a worthwhile project, and I am looking forward to learning some serious
:UNIX on it.
:
:Peter MacFarlane
:pmacfarl@peinet.pe.ca
:
:BTW: How much disk space IS required for the basic install?
:
:
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