From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 13:19:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA26938 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:19:52 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA26933 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:19:50 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA20269; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:13:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510012013.NAA20269@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:13:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Oct 1, 95 03:57:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 708 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Requiring more than 4 megabytes of RAM just to install an > operating system (of any kind) is ridiculous. I don't care what > Win95 or OS/2 Warp or anyone else requires. If they need at least 8 > megs of RAM to run, then that leaves the whole 4-meg market open to us > and You-Know-How in the alternative UNIX-like OS segment. I run Win95 on a 4M machine. It isn't the fastest thing in the world, but it runs just fine. Best bet would be blow the CDROM drivers from generic for the net distribution, and NFS and other net parts as necessary from the CDROM. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.