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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:51:08 -0500
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From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem FOUND
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At 10:57 PM 4/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:
>
>> 
>> I then remembered that I had noticed that 2.2R was a bit clunky with
>>  8 meg of ram, so I popped in another 8 meg, and the problems
>> disappeared. So, it seems, ftp and nfs loads cant be done on at
>> 8 meg system.
>> 
>
>That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS with an
>old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. 

Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion,
if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for
memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as
its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount
of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly.....


Dennis