Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:17:20 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Mark Thomas" <thomas@pbegames.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Minimum requirements? Message-ID: <011601c157f8$be779b20$6600000a@columbia> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011018124527.02737c60@pbegames.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Thomas > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:48 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Minimum requirements? > > I was just trying to drop FBSD4.4 on an old 486 box I have hanging around > and ran into a problem installing. It looks like I don't have sufficient > memory available. The machine has 8MB on board, but the install shows > messages like this after failing: You need 12 MB of physical RAM in it to install properly, but only 8 to make it run once installed. > pid 10 (sh), uid 0, ws killed: out of swap space > ... > > The web site reports 5 meg space for install is sufficient. That information appears to be out of date. Or maybe there's a trick to it that we don't know about. The consensus is 12 MB for install, 8 for operation. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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