Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:19:01 +091800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Diego Baz <Diego_Baz@citysearch.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Minimum memory (was: Inquiry) Message-ID: <19990422131901.J54567@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211423480.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:24:03PM -0700 References: <9A75E4B6D1DCD1119F6F0060975EABE70511F001@pascamail-2.beach.citysearch.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211423480.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Wednesday, 21 April 1999 at 14:24:03 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Diego Baz wrote: > >> Will FreeBSD run on a 486SX system running at 33Mhz with 4 - and only 4 - >> megs of RAM? > > No. you'd hate it if it did. It certainly wasn't long ago that the answer was "yes". You needed 5 MB for installation, but you could run on 4. We appear to have a bug in 3.1, however, which makes it not run in under 8 MB. Expect this limit to drop some time (maybe 3.2), though possibly not back to 4. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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