From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 30 13:17: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [209.118.236.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBB1B15736 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 11AJ1Z-0004bf-00; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:13:01 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory required to install FreeBSD? Message-ID: <7nt106$h7q$1@twwells.com> References: <19990730140815.D44874@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:13:01 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19990730140815.D44874@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>, Nik Clayton wrote: : It certainly used to be 5 MB, some of the documentation says 8 MB, and : the PR says you now need 12 MB. I don't have access to a low end machine : to test this out on, so I'm hoping one of you can let me know. I have a 486/33 IDE machine. The 3.2 install would not work with 8M, though 2.2.5 did work. 3.2 did work with 16M. The failure occured after newfs'ing the file systems, right as it tried to unarchive the bin distribution. I think sysinstall needs to do a swapon() call at some point; this would reduce the need for memory during the latter phases of install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message