From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 20 13:50:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [208.25.85.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EBB37B416 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:50:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0KLo6651934; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:50:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae@niceboots.com) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:50:06 -0800 (PST) From: Tenebrae To: Michael Sierchio Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present In-Reply-To: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message