Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 08:42:37 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: des@des.no Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common install.sgml Message-ID: <1110040957.751.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050301.135532.39196899.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <86acpnmzih.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050301.094356.112814615.imp@bsdimp.com> <200503011529.15251.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050301.135532.39196899.imp@bsdimp.com>
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--=-FaYKZUsCE5SYnCqO6s/P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Warner Losh wrote: > From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> > > Then I think we should just say 24MB is the minimum required for both i= nstall=20 > > and running given all the comments. It will also simplify the docs if = we=20 > > just go with one number for minimum memory requirement. >=20 > I agree. I neglected to explicitly state the point I was trying to > make: While expert users might be able to make slower, smaller > hardware configurations work, in general we should go with more > conservative numbers. In the 'embedded' or 'embedding' documentation > maybe we should mention the possibility of hand-crafted versions of > FreeBSD running in much less memory that for normal users. I think this is the way to go too. I'll make the changes in the general installation notes and the FAQ to reflect a minimum memory requirement of 24 MB for both installing and running (actually I'll just remove the distinction). Thanks to all for their comments, Bruce. --=-FaYKZUsCE5SYnCqO6s/P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCKeF92MoxcVugUsMRAur8AJ45te6rrBMVL/Beq9MAx9e7hytYoQCfSwlg cMFlBiAfebmfCjQM6HA4E+E= =NqDe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-FaYKZUsCE5SYnCqO6s/P--
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