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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:50:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tenebrae <tenebrae@niceboots.com>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201201344450.49640-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com>

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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 
> > 4.2 was the last release that can be installed from FTP using NIC
> > with 8Mb RAM/no swap. It's still possible to install 4.4-RELEASE
> > from FTP using NIC with 8Mb RAM but the first step in sysinstall must
> > be allocation of some swap space and activating it with key 'W'
> > in Label Editor screen. Otherwise, sysinstall will run out of memory while
> > configuring ethernet interface.
> > 
> 
> Sheesh.  64MB of PC133 RAM is USD 22.00.  1GB of PC133w/ECC is $325.  Cheaper
> than these is the brick you can use to bash your head for being too cheap
> to buy memory. ;-)

Don't forget laptops.
I have this ancient NEC Versa 4000 that I've had a heckuva time installing
ANY OS on, much less finding replacement parts for.
It was free, so I can't really complain, but that never stopped me
before...
Upgrade, buy, spend...I hate that kind of mentality.
								-Tenebrae.




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