From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 18:13:44 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id F067A57A; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 18:13:44 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Don Lewis Subject: Re: svn commit: r271076 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include i386/i386 i386/include pc98/pc98 Message-ID: <20140904181344.GA8688@FreeBSD.org> References: <20140904165143.GA81805@FreeBSD.org> <201409041731.s84HVOv8093974@gw.catspoiler.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201409041731.s84HVOv8093974@gw.catspoiler.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 18:13:45 -0000 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).