From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 17 22:28:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (dsl092-188-241.sfo2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.188.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A2637B400 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tenebras.com (laptop [66.92.188.18]) by sapphire.tenebras.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0I6RVo00960; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Message-ID: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:27:26 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio Reply-To: kudzu@tenebras.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: Matt Penna , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. ;-) That said, it would of course be useful to have an accurate "minimum" stated -- even if it is not precise, just guaranteed to work in all circumstances. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message