From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 21:29:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7885014DFC for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:29:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcollins@best.com) Received: from wcollins (dynamic15.pm08.sf3d.best.com [209.24.235.207]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with SMTP id VAA16238; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:27:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001b01be6792$25b83d30$0100a8c0@vip.best.com> Reply-To: "Walter Collins" From: "Walter Collins" To: "Greg Lehey" , "Paul Apple" , "HERBELOT Thierry" Cc: Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:27:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0810.800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Paul Apple ; HERBELOT Thierry Cc: Walter Collins ; 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