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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:28:46 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation.
Message-ID:  <199509300728.IAA14138@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <15228.812444517@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 30, 95 00:01:57 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> 	To fit in all the drivers we need to cover a reasonable set
> 	of devices required at installation-time, we need more than
> 	4MB and if we didn't need it today, we'd need it tomorrow.

But why doubling it instead of successively increasing?

My notebook has 5 MB, and the last private 2.1-snap installed fine.

(Don't assume there ain't wierd memory sizes, 4 MB is 4x256K + 4x1M;
i've got another box with 6 MB around.  8 MB is not necessarily the
next logical step above 4 MB.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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