From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 19: 7:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD9114DFC for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA17353; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:21:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA09367; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:20:18 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990306132018.Q490@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:20:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Paul Apple , HERBELOT Thierry Cc: Walter Collins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? References: <36DF9CF9.515A19B9@telspace.alcatel.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Apple on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 03:07:46PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 15:07:46 -0800, Paul Apple wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, HERBELOT Thierry wrote: >> 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) >> >> It seems you have to have more than 8 Megs of RAM to install 3.1 > > 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? We're not sure. We've seen a number of reports that you need more than 8 MB. It's not intended to be like that, and we're investigating, but since hardly anybody uses such small memory sizes, it's possible that a problem has crept in. We're pretty sure that you can still install 2.2.8 in 5 MB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message