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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999  6:27 -0600
From:      "Brian McGroarty" <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "FreeBSD Hackers" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD Committers" <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE:  How much memory do we need to install?
Message-ID:  <27E6CBC4F939D31186D20008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>

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3.2-RELEASE installs just fine on an 8 meg 386. -STABLE runs just fine.

 -----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 2:04 AM
To: Brian McGroarty; FreeBSD Hackers; FreeBSD Committers
Subject: How much memory do we need to install?



AFAIK, the minimum memory for installation is still 5 MB, and the
problems people had with 8MB machines failing to install was a bug,
right?  What's the current status?

Greg

 ----- Forwarded message from Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr>
 -----

> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:49:01 +0200
> Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr
> Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I)
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> To: Ben Salem <bfs@kscable.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG
> Precedence: bulk
>
> You must have more than 8 Megs to install FreeBSD
>
>  TfH
>
> Ben Salem wrote:
>>
>> Im attempting to install FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE on a 486 8mb ram.
>>
>> Everything goes ok until the installation actually begins, it gets to
>> chunk 1 of 106 then stops.
>>
>> The install seems to work fine on my other machines.
>>
>> I have replaced the NIC card, so I think I can rule that out.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ben Salem

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