From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 30 12:55: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fingers.shocking.com (shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4DC1523B for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doemill@shocking.com) Received: from shocking.com (doemill@shocking.com [216.111.111.11]) by fingers.shocking.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA16585; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:53:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug To: Nik Clayton Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory required to install FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19990730140815.D44874@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it installed fine on an 386dx/33 with 8mb ram and a 100mb hd, I wouldnt beleive it would work very well on anything less then 8mb though. On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to sort out PR docs/11852. Can I anyone please tell me > (definitively) how much memory you need in a box in order to install > FreeBSD on it. > > It certainly used to be 5 MB, some of the documentation says 8 MB, and > the PR says you now need 12 MB. I don't have access to a low end machine > to test this out on, so I'm hoping one of you can let me know. > > Cheers, > > N > > [ Not on -questions, please cc: any replies, thanks ] > -- > [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > | Doug | unix9.org admin | shocking.com/~doemill/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message