Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:44:48 +0400 From: "Michael Lednev" <freebsd-maillists@vibrators.ru> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 Message-ID: <op.sos9oygduxkvrk@asu-reaper> In-Reply-To: <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <opsos56oa0rokg8m@a2-6.melbpc.org.au> <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <op.sos61itcuxkvrk@asu-reaper> <20050406122721.GA33679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > Yes, that is normal. After installation you have got a swap configured > and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient. > During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore > the RAM must be large enough to fit everything in it at once. > > If you really wanted to you could almost certainly *run* (but not > install) 5.3 with only 8 MB RAM (at least if you had a customized > kernel) but I wouldn't recommend it. that's not completely true. when i ran install on 16 mb system rebooted at boot loader start (i didn't saw beastie :) ), and after install it loads ok -- Best Regards, Michael
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