From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 7:29: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9253D37B411 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 07:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f91ERPw22248 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:27:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA03214 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:27:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 49799 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Oct 2001 14:27:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:27:22 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Matt Penna Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM Message-ID: <20011001162721.A49692@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Penna , questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930191312.03069dd0@vmspop.rit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. :-) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message