From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 12:45:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B773F16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:45:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vibrators.ru (mail.vibrators.ru [83.102.249.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A3643D1F for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:45:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-maillists@vibrators.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vibrators.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B65C176; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:45:07 +0400 (MSD) Received: from mail.vibrators.ru ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vibrators.ru [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42076-07; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:44:49 +0400 (MSD) Received: from asu-reaper (vlan101-sv-yar03ra.severttk.ru [80.92.2.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vibrators.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:44:49 +0400 (MSD) To: "Erik Trulsson" References: <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050406122721.GA33679@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:44:48 +0400 From: "Michael Lednev" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=koi8-r MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050406113401.GA33178@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> User-Agent: Opera M2(BETA2)/8.0 (Linux, build 987) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vibrators.ru cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: difficulty installing 5.3-R i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:45:03 -0000 On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson wrote: > Yes, that is normal. After installation you have got a swap configured > and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient. > During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore > the RAM must be large enough to fit everything in it at once. > > If you really wanted to you could almost certainly *run* (but not > install) 5.3 with only 8 MB RAM (at least if you had a customized > kernel) but I wouldn't recommend it. that's not completely true. when i ran install on 16 mb system rebooted at boot loader start (i didn't saw beastie :) ), and after install it loads ok -- Best Regards, Michael