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From: Hector  Gonzalez Jaime <cacho@eureka.gdl.iteso.mx>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x - can it run in 4Mb?
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On Thu, 25 May 1995, Karl Strickland wrote:

> Im interested in installing FreeBSD 2.x on a 486/33 with only 4Mb of ram.
> The box acts as a dedicated internet router, routing between sl0 and two
> ethernet boards.
> 

As of the 032295 Snapshot, it runs with 4 megs, but I couldn't be 
installed with 4 megs, so as a workaround, I put some extra chips on the 
system for installation, and when all was installed and extracted I 
returned the original 4 megs to the system, and it worked great.

Specifically, during installation, when the bindist was extracted 4 megs 
were insufficient, even with a 16 megs swap partition on the system, I 
don't know if it was active.