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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: steve@fywss.com (Steve Kotsopoulos)
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installation Problem
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:05:11 GMT."
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Date: Wed,  2 Jan 2002 10:46:51 -0500
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You need to read the installation instructions at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/install.html

The very first paragraph says you need 32Meg to run the install.

verloc@flyte.net wrote:
> I'm a having a small problem with my installation, and I was wondering
> if anybody out there could help.
>
> It's a pretty old system (relativly speaking, of course) and that may be
> the problem.
>
> P166
> 16 Megs of ram (this may be the problem, I don't know how much ram is
> needed)
>
> The floppy boots ok until I get to the "root is" prompt, at which I hit
> enter and then I get the following :
>
> root is from (local)[local!/bzroot]: <enter>
> kfs...boot: nop...no physical memory
> no physical memory
> no physical memory
> .....
>
> Yada yada yada.  This goes on forever. (well, until I restart it at
> least)
>
> Any ideas?  I'd be happy to provide any information needed.
>
> Jeff Pennington
>