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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:07:33PM -0600, John Utz wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> 
> > 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. ;-)
> 

I managed to get my micron 2 x 512MB ddr266 Registered ECC for $200

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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