From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 12 16:40:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C971065670 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:40:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA188FC0C for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so6029913bkb.13 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:40:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=K1LKTWqiiJl3H5DL1ci3gBSkXp/dLCUN/Rq1HzrMMUU=; b=J/hROTLT7hRlNtvQGwpyUGmU1qiq+xb1PRVJ7ATCVsMUreClST8V759Fee9i2g8rKP iczXuvuJ5rfbYSghubj2K95ekgFlx3oLdcpopWst4dREbMyZJHcxonqiO9366b0NujWk jpHXbwS5rwQ20GhaiYaEsbYf4oxC6K8K7UDHQ= Received: by 10.204.155.152 with SMTP id s24mr12577053bkw.5.1321116015835; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (athedsl-4364788.home.otenet.gr. [79.130.9.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cc2sm16988943bkb.8.2011.11.12.08.40.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:40:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBEA177.7030801@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:40:23 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <201111121837.31888.subbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201111121837.31888.subbsd@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: The minimal system requirements demand updating with 9.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:40:17 -0000 On 12/11/2011 4:37 μμ, Mr Dandy wrote: > Hi > > According to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-hardware.html" > " > Both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/pc98 require a 486 or better processor and at > least 24 MB of RAM. You will need at least 150 MB of free hard drive space for > the most minimal installation. > " > Note that the "install" chapter of the Handbook refers to installations of FreeBSD earlier than 9.0. Though it is true that 8.X cannot be installed (using sysinstall and GENERIC kernel) on a system with 24Mb RAM (Back in the days, I managed to get a trimmed kernel of 8.0-RC1 running on 24Mb RAM). I've done some preliminary testing on 9.0-RC1/386 on VirtualBox and here are my findings (all tests using GENERIC kernel): 24 Mb: Already installed system has trouble booting - processes getting killed before / during mounting of file systems. When installing, bsdinstall chokes at early stages. 32 Mb: Installed system boots. Bsdinstall chokes uncompressing tarballs 48 Mb: Bsdinstall can complete an installation as long as "ports" is not selected for installation. 64 Mb: Bsdinstall can complete a full installation (very slowly!) We should probably suggest 64Mb as an absolute minimum for 9.0 installations.