From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 13 10:57:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (freja.webgiro.com [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2429A1514A for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0895718D0; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0547249CC; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg In-Reply-To: <19990612192410.A70348@mad> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > It is true that you can run a system with as little as 4 meg. I've > installed 2.2 on a system with 4 meg (it was one of the ones that had > a cool motherboard and needed 4 meg instead of 5). Joerg claims he > used to run FreeBSD on a system with only 2 meg. You can't use the > GENERIC installation kernel to run on these low-memory machines, > though. You most certainly can RUN in 4MB, even without any swap partition. I sit in front of such a system :-) - it runs shell, inetd, snmpd, can accept telnet connections, and work as a firewall. Well, with some additional hacking you could probably run in 2MB with swapping (but most of the system activity would be spent this way :-) Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message