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Subject: Re: The minimal system requirements demand updating with 9.0-RELEASE
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Mr Dandy wrote:

> 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.
> "
>
> At present, the minimum volume occupied with system without a choice of
> components (src, ports) occupies ~450-500 Gb (i386/amd64).
>
> However, bsdinstall doesn't install system if a hard disk less than 1 Gb

That's the old sysinstall chapter, the new bsdinstall chapter 
has updated hardware requirements:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html