*BSD News Article 83922


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.dra.com!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk
From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:05:29 +0000
Lines: 13
Message-ID: <32A04D39.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk>
References: <57oa8i$nbs@agate.berkeley.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

bob prohaska wrote:
> First of all, is FreeBSD known to  work on AMD
> 386sx systems with 4 megs of RAM?

I have a 386sx with 3Mb that works OK - but I attached the
drive to one of my other systems to get it installed, and also
used one of my other systems to build it a suitable kernel
(IIRC, the generic kernel would boot, but left insufficient RAM
to run /etc/rc and so enable swapping).

Just for amusement, I then tried getting this machine to compile
its own kernel - which it did eventually complete successfully,
but it took more than 2 days!