Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:23:29 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: aclar02@attglobal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on window clients Message-ID: <20020413092329.A97975@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3CB6F74D.729E5F2C@attglobal.net>; from aclar02@attglobal.net on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:03:42AM -0400 References: <3CB5E679.1B7145F5@attglobal.net> <20020412080317.B52638@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <3CB6F74D.729E5F2C@attglobal.net>
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[Please don't remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:03:42AM -0400, aclar02@attglobal.net wrote: > Jonathan, > Thank you for the quick reply and the information. If I increase the ram to > 512 or > hire, would that make the difference. These are new machines and can support > the ram space or am I barking up the wrong tree. > If may be possible to do it with 512 Mb of RAM; but remember since you've got no disk-space, you're running without swap. At some point it time, you'll probably get a out-of-swap error if you're not careful. Depends on how stripped down the system you're going to be running. You're going to have to build a custom bootable CD, with all the necessary support libs on it as well. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 [...] > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:39:38PM -0400, aclar02@attglobal.net wrote: > > > Good afternoon, > > > I am a novice on unix and linux. I would like to run FreeBsd from a > > > CD using only RAM and no hard drive. My boss said > > > that this is the only way he would test FreeBSD. Each one of our Windows > > > systems has 128 meg of ram. He wants to run > > > java jobs on the FreeBSD system. > > > > IF you want to run Java you need the whole O/S, and that's definitely > > more than 128Mb of RAM. There's no way you can run this from a memory > > based system alone. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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