From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 15 20: 0:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FC437B52F for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA45276 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:58:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA30258; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:57:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004160257.UAA30258@harmony.village.org> To: Gunnar Flygt Subject: Re: Install 4.0-STABLE on an old Laptop Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:01:20 +0200." <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> References: <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:57:12 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000415090120.A75820@sr.se> Gunnar Flygt writes: : Has anyone tried the minimum requirements for 4.0? Sure, but will it run : on an old Toshiba 486 with 24 MB of RAM? I've booted (but not installed) 4.0 of approx jan 1, 2000 on a 4MB system with 32MB of hard disk and no swap. It wasn't pretty, but it worked. I had to do a lot of trimming to get stuff into the hard disk (a 32MB CF actually) and then do a lot of pruning of system daemons to make it run (killed sendmail, cron, inetd, most ptys, ran sshd as my only network daemon, etc). 24MB of RAM shoud be plenty to run a fairly thin, but still usable system. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message