From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 29 6:45:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E093537B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:45:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3A143E42 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 06:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g6TDhffE020221; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6TDhebU020220; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:43:40 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Dan Langille Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minimum memory to install Message-ID: <20020729154340.D18707@abigail.blackend.org> References: <3D45090F.24346.47728413@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D45090F.24346.47728413@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:21:19AM -0400 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:21:19AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was just trying to help someone who was having trouble installing. > I suggested he ensure that he had sufficient memory to do the > install. He reported he could not find this information. I > searched, and I couldn't find it either. I was looking in the > handbook. Eventually I resorted to google and found a reference to > "minimum memory" at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/errata.html. > > Is this information readily available? I expected it to be somewhere > early in the handbook. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT 1.2 Hardware Requirements FreeBSD for the IA-32 requires an 80386 or better processor. The sysinstall(8) installation program requires 16MB of RAM; after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel. Maybe we should add something about it in the Handbook. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message