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Date:      Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:44:48 +0400
From:      "Michael Lednev" <freebsd-maillists@vibrators.ru>
To:        "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386
Message-ID:  <op.sos9oygduxkvrk@asu-reaper>
In-Reply-To: <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <opsos56oa0rokg8m@a2-6.melbpc.org.au> <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <op.sos61itcuxkvrk@asu-reaper> <20050406122721.GA33679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>  
wrote:

> Yes, that is normal.  After installation you have got a swap configured
> and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient.
> During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore
> the RAM must be large enough to fit everything in it at once.
>
> If you really wanted to you could almost certainly *run* (but not
> install) 5.3 with only 8 MB RAM (at least if you had a customized
> kernel) but I wouldn't recommend it.

that's not completely true. when i ran install on 16 mb system rebooted at
boot loader start (i didn't saw beastie :) ), and after install it loads ok

-- 
Best Regards, Michael



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