Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:27:20 -0800 From: "Walter Collins" <wcollins@best.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Paul Apple" <paula@jeffnet.org>, "HERBELOT Thierry" <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? Message-ID: <001b01be6792$25b83d30$0100a8c0@vip.best.com>
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Pretty straight forward problem now that I understand what was going on. The machine that I was installing on had 2 meg ram and the install was going back and forth from memory to swap. No question that the install would either take forever or bomb. I thank everybody for their response to my question. ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Paul Apple <paula@jeffnet.org>; HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Cc: Walter Collins <wcollins@best.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 6:50 PM Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? >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
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