Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:31:28 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install 4.0-STABLE on an old Laptop Message-ID: <00Apr17.123130est.115208@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200004160257.UAA30258@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 01:01:48PM %2B1000 References: <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> <200004160257.UAA30258@harmony.village.org>
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On 2000-Apr-16 13:01:48 +1000, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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
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