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From: Matthew  Campbell <matthewc@arya.solgate.com>
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Subject: Installing FreeBSD with 4 megs of RAM
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My PC currently has only 4 megabytes of RAM (actually, it has 640K of 
base memory and 3 MB of extended memory), and I want to install FreeBSD 
2.1.  I have determined that the boot disk tries to load the root file 
system into a RAM disk, and it's my guess that a lot of memory would be 
saved if I simply mount a floppy root disk.  Is it possible to do this?  
Thanks.