Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:41:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@clark.net> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: originally a newsgroup post, but news server here isn't working Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950615073522.17480A-100000@clark.net> In-Reply-To: <3507.803190239@westhill.cdrom.com>
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I loaded with 16 megs of swap on wd1s2b -- the first time I tried to install, it didn't make it to mounting the swap before conking out.. It might be the docs -- sometimes when I tried pressing f1 for help it would show the docs -- sometimes some of the docs (eg., it would break off some way into them), and sometimes it would tell me that the help file (for the slices, for example) wasn't included on this boot floppy (although later I viewed them fine?). After I had some initial labels written, it started mounting the swap fine (after a boot or two.) Once the swap was mounted on a fresh boot, three processes were killed every time through by vm_pager for lack of swap before swap was loaded, but later stuff (like newfs) survived. Essentially, if I looked at the debug screen while dialing out with term under ppp, I'd see that three processes had been killed. BTW, the in kernel config stuff (-c) is great.. just configured my ethernet card with no hassles ;). I'll recompile and trim the kernel anyway though, given my distinct lack of ram. FreeBSD under 4 megs (text) is pretty snappy though.. I was pleasently surprised. X was a little slow (not surprisingly) -- but I found that it worked fine as long as I tried not to load too many processes locally. If I went to a window manager off-system, killed all but one xterm, and only used that for transport to other systems and to play with authentification, It went reasonably well (although the window manager performance over a PPP line was sluggish ;). Amazing what you can do on a 386 ;). Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <1394.803179968@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wr > ites: > >This *is* with the latest 2.0.5R "UPDATES" boot floppy? As Gary > >announced on the <announce@FreeBSD.org> mailing list, we initially > >made a mistake with 4MB machines and overflowed our maximum allowable > >kernel size. Gary pared things back down again at the last moment and > >stuck a boot boot floppy in place. If it's still dying WITH that > >floppy, then we definitely want to know about it as it means that the > >problem hasn't been fixed! > > Just to let people know, the new boot floppy DOES work - I've just > installed 2.0.5-RELEASE (from an updated floppy) on a 4Mb 486DX2 66 > with an Adaptec 1540C card WITHOUT PROBLEM. However, it does have a > 4Gb hard drive (it's one of our CDROM burner boxes, so it needs lots > of disk space to hold CDROM images), so I gave it 32Mb swap space. If > I can find a machine which I can spam a lot without affecting peoples > work here, I'll see what the minumum swap you can have on a 4Mb > machine is without sysinstall falling over. > > N.B. As I know the install system BACKWARDS, I didn't reference > (i.e. look at) any docs. This may be a crucial point as the way the > docs are loaded is, err, interesting. > > Gary > >
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