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To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. 
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 20:32:52 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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How much space do the PCI drivers take up?  Would it be reasonable to
assume that you either have a 4M machine with <= 486 and no PCI bus or
that you have a PCI bus machine with > 4M of memory?

Then it would be a simple matter of two different kernels, right?

Just a thought...

Warner