Subject: Re: booting an old 486 system
To: Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/27/1998 10:11:46
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:37:57PM -0500, Jon Buller wrote:
> My wife came back from a garage sale and said they had a computer for $10,
> and that I might want to get it, if just for robbing a few parts.  (That's
> reasonably suprising, since she thinks I have too many computers already,
> and she knows how I dislike Intel and Microsoft.)
> 
> Anyway, it's a Am486-Dx2-66, and the 1.3.2 boot floppy, and the 1.3F
> snapshot floppy get all the way to:
> 
> root file system type: ffs
> 
> and then hang.  Any suggestions?

How much memory does it have? The normal bootfloppies will not fit
in, say, 4Mb of memory, this may be your problem.

- Frank