From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 1: 5:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C391501A; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:05:36 -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 RAA10416; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:34:08 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA72754; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:34:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:34:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Committers Subject: How much memory do we need to install? Message-ID: <19990719173407.C72625@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG AFAIK, the minimum memory for installation is still 5 MB, and the problems people had with 8MB machines failing to install was a bug, right? What's the current status? Greg ----- Forwarded message from Thierry Herbelot ----- > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:49:01 +0200 > Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr > Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) > X-Accept-Language: en > To: Ben Salem > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Precedence: bulk > > You must have more than 8 Megs to install FreeBSD > > TfH > > Ben Salem wrote: >> >> Im attempting to install FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE on a 486 8mb ram. >> >> Everything goes ok until the installation actually begins, it gets to >> chunk 1 of 106 then stops. >> >> The install seems to work fine on my other machines. >> >> I have replaced the NIC card, so I think I can rule that out. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> Ben Salem ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message