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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <200306251557.25303.m-trade@hotpop.com>
>             M-Trade <m-trade@hotpop.com> 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
Last week I installed a Pentium 90 with 16 MB - 5.1 couldn't even
start the installation menu, 4.8 went well without any problems
or special configuration.

Uli.

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