From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 1: 1: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD3F14E8C for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA09838; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:28:20 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA97796; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:28:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:28:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Benjamin T. George" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Minimum memory (was: Inquiry) Message-ID: <19990423172814.A97757@freebie.lemis.com> References: <9A75E4B6D1DCD1119F6F0060975EABE70511F001@pascamail-2.beach.citysearch.com> <19990422131901.J54567@freebie.lemis.com> <371FDB4A.D757D713@thekeyboard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <371FDB4A.D757D713@thekeyboard.com>; from Benjamin T. George on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:30:35PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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