Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 13:39 -0600 From: "Brian McGroarty" <BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com> To: "Charles Randall" <crandall@matchlogic.com>, "Chris" <chrismar@raiani.com>, "Pentium Cowboy" <omicrom808@startrekmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: RE: 2mb ram Message-ID: <F93AC5EF5D46D31186D40008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>
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6 megs was sufficient for an install of 3.2-RELEASE via FTP. X was never
attempted. I removed non-present devices via the visual configurator before
beginning. I don't know whether the last had an impact as I never attempted
this without doing so.
Configuration was:
386/DX-16
2 NE2000s
1 meg SVGA
Single IDE hard drive
5.25" and 3.5" floppies
And no, this isn't trivial. This system is used for NAT. With the kernel
properly configured, it out-performs a 200 Pentium MMX running NT Server 4
and WinRoute and cost half as much as the NT NAT package.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Randall [mailto:crandall@matchlogic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:06 PM
To: Brian McGroarty; Chris; Pentium Cowboy
Cc: freebsd-questions
Subject: RE: 2mb ram
Actually, it's now 12 MB to install 3.2. There is/was an open PR on this,
but I can't find it.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris [mailto:chrismar@raiani.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:01 PM
To: Pentium Cowboy
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 2mb ram
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Just to ellaborate on an otherwise correct response-
Hardware requirements.
FreeBSD requires a PC-type personal computer running with an Intel,
AMD, Cyrix, or compatible 386, 486, or Pentium CPU. You computer
needs an ISA, EISA, VESA, or PCI bus. You will also need 5
megabytes of RAM to install FreeBSD (but 4 megabytes to run it
after installation). For best performance, you should have 8
megabytes or more. 60MB of disk space is required for a minimal
installation.
Your disk is fine (albeit a little on the tiny side), but you'll need at
*LEAST* 4 mb to run FreeBSD and 5 to install.
Chris
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Dragon Knight ][ wrote:
>
> > I have an old ps/1 windows 3.1 computer with 85mb hard drive, and 2mb
> > memory. I wish to install freebsd on it as a primary os. my question
> > is... IS IT POSSIBLE?
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>
> No.
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