From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 16 19:31: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DFA37B8B8 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115208>; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:31:30 +1000 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Install 4.0-STABLE on an old Laptop In-reply-to: <200004160257.UAA30258@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 01:01:48PM +1000 To: Warner Losh Cc: Gunnar Flygt , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Apr17.123130est.115208@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> <200004160257.UAA30258@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:31:28 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2000-Apr-16 13:01:48 +1000, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> Gunnar Flygt writes: >: Has anyone tried the minimum requirements for 4.0? Sure, but will it run >: on an old Toshiba 486 with 24 MB of RAM? > >24MB of RAM shoud be plenty to run a fairly thin, but still usable >system. I've got a 486 with 20MB RAM running 4-CURRENT from a couple of months ago (it takes about 30 hours for a buildworld and my wife complains about the noise in our bedroom). I haven't noticed any real problems with the lack of RAM. My biggest gotcha is forgetting to add swap before linking a kernel (with debugging) in single user. (It compiles, but the linker runs out of RAM). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message