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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 4Mb of RAM
To: ranger@server.tversu.ac.ru (Sergey Kachanovsky)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:15:27 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601011712.UAA13880@server.tversu.ac.ru> from "Sergey Kachanovsky" at Jan 1, 96 08:12:18 pm
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hasn't Sergey Kachanovsky said ? ...
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I want to install FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE or 2.0.5-RELEASE at home, but I have
> only 4Mb of RAM on my 386dx/40MHz, and I'd like to know, if FreeBSD will
> run on such machine with only 4Mb of RAM. Please tell me, what's the lowest
> limit of memory on PC for running FreeBSD.
> 
i think 2.1.0 will _run_ with 4 mbyte but you need a minimum of 5
mbyte to install it - maybe you can borrow it from somethere ? - maybe
2.0.5 will also install with 4 mbyte

t
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