From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 13:57:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7413F37B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA15750; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:56:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001101c04b61$5eda2740$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Mike Meyer" , "Potchanat Samermit" Cc: References: <14860.26456.683.867717@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation and Bootdisks Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:58:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Potchanat Samermit types: > > My machine has only 160 MB harddrive and 4MB Ram. Don't know if I can = > > upgrade the RAM on this. Too old. I want to start with something minimal = > > first until I have more money to buy a good machine for it.=20 > > > > I have another machine with more RAM (20M) may be that is a better = > > choice but will be the same HD. > > I've seen the claim that you need more than 4MB of ram to install, but > not run, FreeBSD. You need 5 MB of RAM to install FreeBSD, but only 4MB to run. Your biggest problem will be your hard drive. 160MB is roughly enough to install the base system. If you plan on doing anything with the FreeBSD source (such as creating a custom kernel in order to use IP firewalling) you will need a larger hard drive. -- Matthew Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message