Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:28:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Benjamin T. George" <beng@thekeyboard.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Minimum memory (was: Inquiry) Message-ID: <19990423172814.A97757@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <371FDB4A.D757D713@thekeyboard.com>; from Benjamin T. George on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:30:35PM -0400 References: <9A75E4B6D1DCD1119F6F0060975EABE70511F001@pascamail-2.beach.citysearch.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211423480.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <19990422131901.J54567@freebie.lemis.com> <371FDB4A.D757D713@thekeyboard.com>
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>> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html On Thursday, 22 April 1999 at 22:30:35 -0400, Benjamin T. George wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > When I origanally installed FreeBSD 2.2.8, everything I could find said that you > had to have 5 MB to install it. But, I installed it on a 486DX with 4 MB or > ram. I now have 8 MB (and it runs like a dog ;-), but I *did* install it with 4 > MB. Interesting. That shouldn't have worked. Greg -- 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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