From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 11 1:16: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.217.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7736414C14 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA22189; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:15:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:15:49 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham To: Kent Stewart Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD System Requirements for 3.3-RC Message-ID: <19990911091549.B22163@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <72243.936651914@localhost> <37D92CEF.ED8CC4FA@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37D92CEF.ED8CC4FA@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:08:15AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:08:15AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > I started reading the system requirements for 3.3-RC and the first > thing I noticed was that 5MB is still listed as the memory > requirements. It is more or less common knowledge that you require 8MB > minimum and 12MB in general to install FreeBSD. It seems like this > statement should be corrected. The 3.3-RC INSTALL.txt reads as > follows: > > FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, there is no > support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to install > and 4 megs of RAM to run. You will need at least 100MB of free hard > drive space for the most minimal installation. See below for ways of > shrinking existing DOS partitions in order to install FreeBSD. > This also fails to mention the alpha port exists. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message