From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 19:10:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD90F16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA6843D3F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1EJAQDP080610 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:26 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1EJAPiK080605; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:25 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:25 GMT Message-Id: <200502141910.j1EJAPiK080605@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Subject: Re: docs/77304: [PATCH] FreeBSD 5.3 can not be installed on a 16 MB old pentium 75 MHz machine. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:10:26 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/77304; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, ea1abz@wanadoo.es, jhb@freebsd.org, bmah@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/77304: [PATCH] FreeBSD 5.3 can not be installed on a 16 MB old pentium 75 MHz machine. Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:08:07 -0600 Well, here is a patch that simply incorporates jhb's figures. I'm cc'ing both jhb and bmah (I beg pardon if this is inbox clutter), as I am certainly not qualified to be authoritative on this, and don't wish to start any forest fires, either. I guess we point "minimalist" types to picobsd more often now? After all, even a 24MB box is rather rare these days, I'd suspect.... Kevin Kinsey [kadmin@archangel][/usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common] diff -crN install.sgml install.sgml.edit *** install.sgml Mon Feb 14 12:55:22 2005 --- install.sgml.edit Mon Feb 14 12:50:36 2005 *************** *** 79,85 **** &os; for the &arch.print; requires a 486 or better processor to install and run (although &os; can run on 386 processors with ! a custom kernel) and at least 8 megs of RAM to install and 7 megs to run. You will need at least 150MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation. See below for ways of shrinking existing DOS partitions in order to install &os;. --- 79,85 ---- &os; for the &arch.print; requires a 486 or better processor to install and run (although &os; can run on 386 processors with ! a custom kernel) and at least 24 megs of RAM to install and 12 megs to run. You will need at least 150MB of free hard drive space for the most minimal installation. See below for ways of shrinking existing DOS partitions in order to install &os;.