Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:07:46 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Apple <paula@jeffnet.org> To: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Cc: Walter Collins <wcollins@best.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903051500400.1093-100000@ellie.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <36DF9CF9.515A19B9@telspace.alcatel.fr>
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According to the INSTALL.TXT file on the distribution cdrom (disk 1) only 5 megabytes of RAM are required to install and 4 megabytes to run. Has this changed? On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, HERBELOT Thierry wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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