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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 04:14:08 -0700
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>>in the .bss in any case...this isn't a problem - we're only interested in the
>>actual size of the binary.
>
>Surely there is more of a problem fitting everything at runtime than just
>loading it?

   Nope, as far as I know the only problem is sufficient space to decompress
the kernel binary and MFS filesystem. After this has occurred, there is
"plenty" of room.

-DG