From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 21:33:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net (adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [63.194.112.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 141B737B6AF for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 48091 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2000 04:39:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ibix) (192.168.1.3) by adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net with SMTP; 16 Jul 2000 04:39:03 -0000 From: "Hank Wethington" To: "Matthew West" , "Rob Wilkinson" Cc: Subject: RE: Installation on a 486-2/66 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:32:33 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20000716013208.A91967@apotheosis.org.za> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I must humbly disagree. Although I am not positive what the minimum systems requirements may be, I installed FreeBSD 3.4 on a 486/66 with only 8 mb ram. It had 8 when I installed it and still has 8 (although if anyone has some 4 mb or larger 30 pin ram, I might be interested). The drive size is a whooping 800mb. It was a network install (over DSL). Again, I don't know what the minimum system requirements may be, or if they change depending on whether you do a CD, HD or net install, but it worked fine for me with no hiccups. Just my 2 cents... Hank -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew West Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 4:32 PM To: Rob Wilkinson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:13:20AM -0700, Rob Wilkinson wrote: > I have a problem installing FreeBSD release 4.0 on my system. > > My System: > ^^^^^^^^^ > 486 DX2/66 > 8MB of RAM ^^ While FreeBSD 3.x (and maybe even 4.x, I haven't tried) will run on 8MB of RAM, the installation will hang as you've described if you only have 8MB available. See if you can't (temporarily) add more RAM to the machine to do the installation, or move the HDD to another machine to do the install. -- mwest@uct.ac.za 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