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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r271076 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include
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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).