From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 09:20:30 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 0971637B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CFC43FEC for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h5PGKRE1051707; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:20:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:20:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030625.102024.35071759.imp@bsdimp.com> To: m-trade@hotpop.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200306251557.25303.m-trade@hotpop.com> References: <200306251557.25303.m-trade@hotpop.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:20:30 -0000 In message: <200306251557.25303.m-trade@hotpop.com> M-Trade writes: : Hello, : : 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? Yes. The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog. you might be able to cope with a stripped down kernel, but sysinstall will dump core unless you sneak in early in the process and add more swap. you really need at least 16MB if not 24MB of RAM to install 5 Warner