From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 29 14:57:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jochem.dyndns.org (cc40670-a.groni1.gr.nl.home.com [217.120.131.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8369F37B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:57:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jochem@localhost) by jochem.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATMvhU26252 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:57:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jochem) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:57:42 +0100 From: Jochem Kossen To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <20011129235742.A26229@jochem.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com> <20011128142901.A90607@numachi.com> <20011128203017.GA73875@student.uu.se> <3.0.5.32.20011129113739.0171e760@iname.com> <20011130070615.A6520@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011130070615.A6520@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:06:15AM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:06:15AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:37:39AM +0400, SM wrote: > > At 21:30 28-11-2001 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >Installing 4-STABLE on a machine with only 8 MB RAM can be problem. > > >I believe the installation process requires at least 12 MB memory. > > >It is perfectly possible to run 4-STABLE on a 386 with 8 MB RAM once it > > >has been installed on the other hand. I am doing exactly that. > > > > I installed 4-STABLE on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM. I couldn't build a custom > > kernel on the machine as the compile broke every few days. > > Broken compiles == Flakey h/w. Unless the process was killed because the system ran out of memory :) Which brings me to mind, has Vladimir Dozen's patch from http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=fa.k65eahv.i5mh06%40ifi.uio.no&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dg:thl3112204389d%26hl%3Den%26selm%3Dfa.k65eahv.i5mh06%2540ifi.uio.no ever gotten through, or parts of it? -- Jochem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message