From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 14:23:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4451937B404 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3CLNTQm098262; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:23:29 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3CLNTFl098261; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:23:29 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:23:29 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: aclar02@attglobal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on window clients Message-ID: <20020413092329.A97975@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3CB5E679.1B7145F5@attglobal.net> <20020412080317.B52638@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <3CB6F74D.729E5F2C@attglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CB6F74D.729E5F2C@attglobal.net>; from aclar02@attglobal.net on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:03:42AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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