From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 11:58:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F039337B423 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 4015 invoked by uid 0); 8 Apr 2001 18:58:52 -0000 Received: from pd950a1c0.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO lofizwei) (217.80.161.192) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 8 Apr 2001 18:58:52 -0000 Message-ID: <00dc01c0c05d$ea335ca0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: "Teguh Kurniawan" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Re:System Requirements Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:58:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teguh Kurniawan" To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 8:05 PM Subject: Re:System Requirements On my opinion, actually that depend on you, which application do you want to run at your FreeBSD. For minimal h/w requirement I knew is 386 / 4 Megs RAM / 50 Megs HDD. [...] Actually, as can be seen in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html, those minimum specs have been bumped to 8 megs of RAM. I actually tried, and succeeded to install FreeBSD 4.2 Release via CD-ROM on an 8 meg 486, but I had to pull quite a few tricks in order to do so (like disconnecting everything from the IDE Bus and only enabling the primary IDE controller in the boot-time kernel configuration). I expect 4.3 and 5 to be in demand for at least 12 megs for a succesful install from CD-ROM. So, while being at it: Could anyone suggest a procedure to create a swap partition and enabling it _before_ running the major part of sysinst? Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message