Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:13:06 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: archie@tribe.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD in 5 megs? Message-ID: <v02140b00ad483214b20a@[206.104.22.187]>
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Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> writes:
>FreeBSD 2.1.0 should be able to run in 5 megs of memory, right?
>I just got the following error on a rather minimalist machine
>I'm trying to bring up:
>
> CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU)
> Origin = "Cyrix"
> real memory = 5242880 (5120K bytes)
> avail memory = 3858432 (3768K bytes)
> Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
[snip]
Well I'm terribly suprised to get the following to work:
n4hhe: {1} dmesg
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 11 12:20:21 CST 1996
root@n4hhe.ampr.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUGGABLE
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
real memory = 4587520 (4480K bytes)
avail memory = 3162112 (3088K bytes)
Hmmm. Thought that machine was a 386SX and not a DX...
For installation, I cheated. Installed on the hard drive while it was
installed on another machine. But I compiled my "LUGGABLE" kernel while
running GENERIC. Took forever. Then timed a recompile while running the
LUGGABLE kernel and it took over 5 hours. My 16MB NexGen PCI-90 took just
over 9 minutes for the same task.
So in at least my case, a lesser machine than yours *runs* 2.1.0R. I'd
suspect the Cyrix CPU or other hardware.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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