From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 22:51:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA15168 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:51:22 -0700 Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org [198.68.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA15163 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:51:18 -0700 Received: (from gurney_j@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA13404; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:11:31 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:11:29 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 951026-SNAP and 4megs In-Reply-To: <12658.814852523@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > well... I just thought you guys would like to know... I pulled 4megs of > > ram out of a 8meg machine to test it... even though I read the message > > about it failing on his machine... and it worked on my machine... right > > now I am testing it on my laptop and it reports 639/3328k... and the > > install screen came up... so it looks like 4meg does work... > > Huh! Great.. So now I can tell people: "It *might* work in 4MB." > Why couldn't it have just fallen over on your machine, like everyone > else's? :-) sorry :)... also... on my 8meg machine the ram reported was 640/3456k... just for the record... also... we could say just disable the shadow ram for install and then reable it after... > Thanks for the report. no problem.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)