Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:10:11 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: "Jason Burgess" <jb@fbfguns.com>, <Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Matthew Weymar <weymar@alumni.princeton.edu> Subject: Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200304052010.11390.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <3BD4A5842C8AE2428158AB1EE6DCC3774D64@mail.fbfguns.com> References: <3BD4A5842C8AE2428158AB1EE6DCC3774D64@mail.fbfguns.com>
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On Saturday 05 April 2003 01:48 pm, Jason Burgess wrote: please don't top post > -----Original Message----- > From: kitsune [mailto:kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:59 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD > On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 18:23:18 +0200 > Clemens Jaeger <clemens.jaeger@chello.at> wrote: > > Hello! > > I was looking for information : how much RAM is needed to run FreeBSD > on > > a Pentium Computer? > > There is no information on your website / documentation for Version > > 5.0 > > should be something like 4Mb, iirc that's outdated information for older releases. see the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html I think that information that all will run in 4MB is out of date now too. I'd be surprised if 5.0 could boot in 4MB in a useful form, even after a custom kernel was built. > I've never had any luck below 8MB. > > Jason Burgess The only documentation on this that I see is in the FAQ. The FAQ only refers to 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x anyway. I'm not sure what the doc project has in mind for 5.x documentation. I received another email that said he was not able to install 5.0 in less than 20 MB, so there's a data point. Anyone want to take this up with doc@freebsd.org? It seems this is a FAQ, but would be well to place the minimum memory requirements in the install instructions since no one reads the FAQ it seems. Tim
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