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To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? 
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:18:59 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20011203082856.G910@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes:
: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
: >Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory?
: 
: AFAIK, no.  The 4.4-RELEASE CD states 16MB - most of this is because
: the installation filesystem is an MFS unpacked off the floppy.  Once
: you've installed the system, it'll run in 8MB.  Your options would
: seem to be:

I found that 12M on a pc98 machine was too little to do the 4.4
install on it.  However, I was able to just squeek by when I built a
massively trimmed kernel.  The 8M RAM machine was a lost cause.

I wound up getting more RAM for these machines on my last trip to
Japan so I could install FreeBSD on them.

The 8M RAM machine did work OK with a disk I'd installed on another
machine.

# Maybe I have too many pc98 machine.  Certainly the largest
# collection outside Japan with 3 laptops :-)

Warner

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