From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 18 0:59:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB91514EC4 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA11423; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:26:49 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA40131; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:26:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990418172645.J37994@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:26:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Paul Apple Cc: HERBELOT Thierry , Walter Collins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? References: <19990306132018.Q490@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Paul Apple on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 04:10:22AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 4:10:22 -0800, Paul Apple wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 15:07:46 -0800, Paul Apple wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, HERBELOT Thierry wrote: >>>> Walter Collins wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What are the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD. I was trying to setup >>>>> a friend with a UNIX learning machine (single user 386) and the installation >>>>> would bomb, hang and so on. (200 mg unallocated drive space) >>>> >>>> It seems you have to have more than 8 Megs of RAM to install 3.1 >>> >>> According to the INSTALL.TXT file on the distribution cdrom (disk 1) >>> only 5 megabytes of RAM are required to install and 4 megabytes to run. >>> Has this changed? >> >> We're not sure. We've seen a number of reports that you need more >> than 8 MB. It's not intended to be like that, and we're >> investigating, but since hardly anybody uses such small memory sizes, >> it's possible that a problem has crept in. We're pretty sure that you >> can still install 2.2.8 in 5 MB. > > Count me as a hardly anybody. Ya make do with whatcha got when ya ain't > got alot and my bitty box is a 486 with 8 megs. AFAIK that's the maximum > the motherboard can take. (Texas Instruments, model unknown, no docs.) > > CPU: Cyrix 486SLC/DLC (486-class CPU) > Origin = "CyrixInstead" DIR=0xff Stepping=0 Revision=0 > real memory = 8650752 (8448K bytes) > avail memory = 6930432 (6768K bytes) > > Actually, it's the same case and power supply and peripherals that > formerly housed a 386 motherboard and FreeBSD 2.1.6. > > i plug a phone line in it > > anyway... > > Walters' problem sounds similar to mine except that I'm trying to do a > sysinstall upgrade to 3.1 from 2.2.6. > > After distribution selection, sysinstall begins to extract into the /bin > directory and dies. I can switch virtual terminals, but the holographic > shell is unresponsive. Luckily, I've been able undo the upgrade. Sorry to have left this for so long. In the meantime, one of the core team has tripped over this problem, and I believe he's looking at it. At any rate, it seems to be real. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message