Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Hangs - Update
To: James Webster <James3838@tsi-net.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/23/1999 20:26:52
On Apr 22, James Webster wrote
> Actually I later found 2 4mb 72 pin sims that my machine recognized, and lo and behold it actually booted.  So it looks like 4mb may not be enough to boot off the floppy.  Maybe this should be confirmed and added to the minimum hardware requirements....

For 1.4_Alpha I found 8Mb was not enouth either for the standard boot floppy.
But the INSTALL_SMALL or INSTALL_TINY floppies should work.

> 
> I did run into an issue with my Compex NE2000 compatible network card though.  Are NE2000 compatibles supported?  It's probed successfully, but reports that it can't be configured if I try to use it.

Most NE2000 clones works. Maybe yours is not compatible enouth ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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