From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 15: 9:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jeffnet.org (jeffnet.org [204.203.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025D5152A0 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paula@jeffnet.org) Received: from ellie.my.domain (ip119.jeffnet.org [204.203.88.119]) by jeffnet.org (8.8.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id PAA10781; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:09:13 -0800 Received: from localhost (papple@localhost) by ellie.my.domain (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA01098; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:07:46 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: ellie.my.domain: papple owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:07:46 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Apple X-Sender: papple@ellie.my.domain To: HERBELOT Thierry Cc: Walter Collins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? In-Reply-To: <36DF9CF9.515A19B9@telspace.alcatel.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to the INSTALL.TXT file on the distribution cdrom (disk 1) only 5 megabytes of RAM are required to install and 4 megabytes to run. Has this changed? On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, HERBELOT Thierry wrote: > Hello, > > It seems you have to have more than 8 Megs of RAM to install 3.1 > > 200 Megs of disk is quite enough, from what I see on a smallish 486 > install : > > % df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s1a 31743 17282 11922 59% / > /dev/wd0s1f 141471 93164 36990 72% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 29751 1805 25566 7% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > % uname -a > FreeBSD pc-snmp1.telspace.alcatel.fr 3.1-19990218-STABLE FreeBSD > 3.1-19990218-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 24 18:59:39 CET 1999 > herbelot@pc-snmp1.telspace.alcatel.fr:/usr/src/sys/compile/TFH i386 > % > > TfH > > Walter Collins wrote: > > > > What are the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD. I was trying to setup > > a friend with a UNIX learning machine (single user 386) and the installation > > would bomb, hang and so on. (200 mg unallocated drive space) > > > > wcollins@best.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message