From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 22:55:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F99C16A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:55:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094F843D55 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arno@heho.snv.jussieu.fr) Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (heho.snv.jussieu.fr [134.157.184.22]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.12.11/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id j7CMtOlc086203 ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:55:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from heho.snv.jussieu.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id j7CMtnON054622 ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:55:49 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from arno@localhost) by heho.snv.jussieu.fr (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j7CMtnVU054619; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:55:49 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from arno) To: Chris References: <42FD08D3.2080300@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> From: "Arno J. Klaassen" Date: 13 Aug 2005 00:55:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42FD08D3.2080300@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:55:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 42FD28DC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory requirements between releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:55:52 -0000 hello, > The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say > "FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM". > [ .. ] > I have on old tosh 110CT laptop with 24mb memory I want to set up as a > wireless router/NAT box but would prefer to use 6 or 5.4. I've run 5.X for about a year on a Pentium60 with 16M as ethernet router/NAT; flawless, excellent perf (untill it died a couple of weeks ago). net-booting via PXE though, no idea whether you can *install* with less than 24M, running only seems OK Arno