From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 1:12:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3D337B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:12:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24500 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:12:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h35n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.35]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09844 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:12:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1204 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Mar 2001 09:12:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:12:57 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: FreeBSD-STABLE list Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 available this weekend Message-ID: <20010328111256.A1188@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-STABLE list References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hey9811@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:33:33AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:33:33AM -0600, Virtual Bob wrote: > > Things to deal with--it can run in 8meg RAM, supposedly, but if you > > install fresh, you need at least 20meg RAM for sysinstall to run. I tried > > a buildworld on it just for fun last year, but gave up after it ran for > > several days. I just run buildworld on a faster machine, then NFS mount > > and installworld on the '386. It works fine like that, and it hasn't had > > any problems running 3-STABLE and 4-STABLE. > > I got the odd-ball TI486/33 here... It's (soldered) on a 386SX-16 > motherboard, which automatically limits it to 16MB RAM max. > > I had no problem installing 3.2-R, and have TI486 chug through 3.5-S. I > believe I posted about this before -- it took about 4 or 5 days to build & > install world completely. > > Doing it once was fun, but I have no more wish to doing it again any > time in the future. Now like you've said, I just buildworld on faster > machine and do NFS then installworld on that TI486. > > The 'ol handbook says 3.2 (or 3.1? something...) can be run on 5MB RAM, > but bit more during install. My guess is 8MB RAM. > Actually the documentation for 3.2 said that it could run with 4 MB RAM but needed at least 5 MB RAM to install. I haven't tested if that is true but I do know that 3.2 can be installed with 8 MB RAM. The memory needed to install increased with 3.3 or 3.4. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message