From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 14:57:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB87F37B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFF143EC5 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:57:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 90F2951998; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:27:25 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:27:25 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <20021216225725.GO97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <9710634521.20021214232526@dds.nl> <3DFC0AB1.D60AAF66@mindspring.com> <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021216.120210.113562538.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021216.120210.113562538.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 12:02:10 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >> I suppose it would be a good idea to include an alternatvie i386 >> kernel on the CD-ROM. There may be a space issue, of course. How >> many people participating in this thread have an i386 with at least 12 >> MB of memory and intended to try 5.0 on it? How many of those don't >> have a machine to bootstrap off? > > 12MB? Last known "safe" value. > The last time I tried on a 16MB machine, it core dumped because it > ran out of memory. I had to put 24MB in the machine before it would > work (I couldn't try 20MB due to onhand SIMMs). Ah, good info. OK, how many 24 MB 80386 machines have you (pl) ever seen? How many do you have? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message