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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:27:26 -0800
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.kuzbass.ru>
Cc:        Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present
Message-ID:  <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru>

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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. ;-)
 
That said,  it would of course be useful to have an accurate "minimum"
stated -- even if it is not precise,  just guaranteed to work in all
circumstances.

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