From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 1: 5:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D16F15135 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 01:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id KAA17889; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:01:37 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA04643; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:00:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA21153; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:44:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14429; Fri, 5 Mar 99 09:54:28 +0100 Message-Id: <36DF9CF9.515A19B9@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 09:59:37 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Collins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? References: <000901be66ce$d557a6a0$0100a8c0@vip.best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, It seems you have to have more than 8 Megs of RAM to install 3.1 200 Megs of disk is quite enough, from what I see on a smallish 486 install : % df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 31743 17282 11922 59% / /dev/wd0s1f 141471 93164 36990 72% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 29751 1805 25566 7% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc % uname -a FreeBSD pc-snmp1.telspace.alcatel.fr 3.1-19990218-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-19990218-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 24 18:59:39 CET 1999 herbelot@pc-snmp1.telspace.alcatel.fr:/usr/src/sys/compile/TFH i386 % TfH Walter Collins wrote: > > What are the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD. I was trying to setup > a friend with a UNIX learning machine (single user 386) and the installation > would bomb, hang and so on. (200 mg unallocated drive space) > > wcollins@best.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message