From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 02:45:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C41237B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:45:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC98B43FDD for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0fm.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.1.246] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19V6qe-00030L-00; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:45:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3EF96EF8.4C4DED20@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:44:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: M-Trade References: <200306251557.25303.m-trade@hotpop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4bc98cbb45cf0de14b64899c2423af26d2601a10902912494350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8MB install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:45:54 -0000 M-Trade wrote: > Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486 > w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install. > > avail memory = (245760) 0 MB > > Is this expected behavior? Until you build a skinnier kernel, you only have 240K of memory in which to run processes. Normally, the install process uses a great huge chunk of memory for a RAM disk, which it mounts as root. Your best bet is to install the drive on another machine, or temporarily install RAM in the 486. After the install, it should barely crawl in 8M. If you want to actually fit in 8M, you should rebuild a custom kernel that leaves out all the devices for which FreeBSD has drivers, but which you do not have installed in your machine. You may also want to leave out NFS, and drivers for things which *are* installed in your machine, but which you don't intend to use (e.g. sound cards, etc.). Alternately, you could find a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 distribution on the net somewhere, and install that, instead; I have personally run that version of FreeBSD on a 4M 386SX, to use it as an X Terminal. 8-). -- Terry