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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:13:44 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r271076 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include i386/i386 i386/include pc98/pc98
Message-ID:  <20140904181344.GA8688@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201409041731.s84HVOv8093974@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <20140904165143.GA81805@FreeBSD.org> <201409041731.s84HVOv8093974@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:31:24AM -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 4 Sep, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > I have a couple of P55-based mobos, but never bothered to install our
> > fresh -CURRENT on them.  I guess I should, just to see if we still rock.
> 
> RAM size is the probably the biggest issue.  [...]

Moments like this I thank that FreeBSD is pretty much the same from the user
POV, be it now or 15 years ago.  It's still the same console-based install
process, with no one pouring full X11 stack on you by default.  Not sure how
much RAM is required these days to boot into single user and gpart && untar
the kernel+base distsets to obtain a minimal working system, but should not
be too much.  Did anyone try to find out the minimum?  16MB?  32MB?

./danfe

P.S.  ZFS, well yes, is probably out of question.  But UFS is very good FS
even by modern standards (no pun intended).



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