From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 17:16:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF8E16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:16:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com (mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com [66.48.68.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D9B43D2F for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:16:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@danielquinn.org) Received: from douglas ([66.59.162.146]) (authenticated)j19HG7K17764 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:16:08 GMT Exocomm-Delivery-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:16:08 GMT Exocomm-URL: www.exocomm.com From: daniel quinn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:12:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200502072107.38331.me@danielquinn.org> <420A235A.7060907@freebsd.org> <20050209170927.GB37205@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050209170927.GB37205@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502091212.30306.freebsd@danielquinn.org> Subject: Re: cracked out floppy install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:16:13 -0000 On February 9, 2005 12:09 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:06PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16 > > >should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some > > > form of useful error message instead of just rebooting. it just makes > > > no sense. > > > > Interestingly, the Installation Notes for 4.11-R, > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/installation-i386.html state, in > > section 1.2 Hardware Requirements, "The sysinstall(8) installation > > program requires 16MB of RAM" > > > > Does sysinstall in 5.3 _really_ need half the RAM that 4.11 requires? I > > find that hard to believe. > > No...this has been established elsethread and a PR has been submitted. you're right. i found it yesterday. the installer actually requires more ram than it takes to run the operating system itself. i was working from the assumption that the installer required what the o/s required. my bad. i think this weekend i'm just going to transplant the hard drive into another machine to do the install. it saves me the headaches that come with floppies and it'll likely be a whole lot faster. thanks for all your input though. as a gentoo guy, i guess i have a lot to learn about freebsd yet. -- problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - albert Einstein