From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 13:40:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05330 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05324 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id af13298; 9 Jul 96 20:34 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa01584; 9 Jul 96 20:50 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01260; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:16:05 GMT Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 15:16:05 GMT Message-Id: <199607091516.PAA01260@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de CC: erewan@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607091033.KAA00637@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> (message from Werner Griessl on Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:33:26 +0000 ()) Subject: Re: help Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In this situation you have 3 choices: > 1) more RAM > 2) wait for the upcoming 2.1.5-Release ( in a few days ) > 3) Install the latest 2.1-SNAP ( it includes a boot4-floppy) It might be worth mentioning that the 2.1-SNAP boot floppy allows you to select the version of the operating system you wish to install, so you can still install 2.1.0-RELEASE from it. > P.S.: In every case: every serious FreeBSD with 4 MB of ram > will be nearly unusable ( only my $0.02) It will certainly struggle to run X or compile programs, but is probably acceptable for a very basic Unix box. I used to have an 8MB machine and found it perfectly useable in text-mode. Who knows, maybe he wants to use it as a dedicated router or a dumb terminal? :-) -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/