From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 5:51:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sbridge.highvoltage.com (voltage.high-voltage.com [205.243.158.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6819214D53; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 05:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 6:27 -0600 From: "Brian McGroarty" To: "Greg Lehey" , "FreeBSD Hackers" , "FreeBSD Committers" Subject: RE: How much memory do we need to install? Message-ID: <27E6CBC4F939D31186D20008C7333C82@high-voltage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----- > 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) > X-Accept-Language: en > To: Ben Salem > 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message