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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:27:22 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Matt Penna <mdp1261@rit.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM
Message-ID:  <20011001162721.A49692@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu>

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:05:02AM -0400, Matt Penna wrote:

> 
> Did 4.4-Release introduce heightened memory requirements that make 
> installation impossible on a machine with 8MB of RAM? Is this a very 
> strange install bug? Or am I simply doing something wrong?

FreeBSD requires more than 8 MB RAM to install nowadays. This was not
introduced with 4.4 but rather with 3.4 (or possibly 3.3). I believe
the minimum is 12 or 16 MB RAM to install.
Note that you can run FreeBSD with only 8MB RAM, just not install.


> 
> I will leave the machine as is until I can figure out what happened. 
> Truthfully, there is little reason for me to be running 4.4 on this machine 
> instead of 4.3. If 4.4 introduced new requirements that are as yet 
> undocumented, I'm hoping to help someone else avoid future problems - even 
> if not too many people have 386 8MB machines in production these days. :)

I have such a machine running just fine. :-)


-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se


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