From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 8:11:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A8A37B412 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sonic.rit.edu (roc-24-93-27-75.rochester.rr.com [24.93.27.75]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f91F8so14881; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:08:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011001104644.03b27ec0@vmspop.rit.edu> X-Sender: mdp1261@osfpop.rit.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:05:38 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM Cc: sumirati@yahoo.de, ertr1013@student.uu.se In-Reply-To: <20011001142232.50452.qmail@web13303.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >Hi Matt, > >yes, somewhere since FreeBSD 4.x the amount of memory needed for >_installation_ >changed to 12 MB. > >In the mailing list archives it is mentioned sometimes. [...] >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. Thank you, Marc and Erik, for pointing this out! Sorry for asking something that was already in the archives - I tried searching before posting the question, but I apparently wasn't hitting on the correct search terms. Odd that 4.3 installs fine on the machine with only 8MB, but after checking the archives more closely, it seems others have not been so lucky. Perhaps I should submit an update for the FAQ - it still claims that 5MB is all that's needed for installation. Then again, it also counts 2.2 among "newer versions of FreeBSD." :) Thanks again! Matt And Erik, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who still uses 386es. :) -- Matt Penna soba@usagiyojimbo.com mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message