Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:12:57 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: FreeBSD-STABLE list <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.7 available this weekend Message-ID: <20010328111256.A1188@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103280123500.10389-100000@kristen.shadowdale.net>; from hey9811@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:33:33AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103271157180.98971-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103280123500.10389-100000@kristen.shadowdale.net>
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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. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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