From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 06:38:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA05983 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 06:38:37 -0700 Received: from wc.cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [192.216.223.37]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA05977 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 06:38:36 -0700 Received: from mailbox.syr.edu (mailbox.syr.EDU [128.230.1.5]) by wc.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA18152 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 06:38:42 -0700 Received: from forbin.syr.edu by mailbox.syr.edu (8.6.9/SUM-V8-1.0) id JAA18070; Wed, 31 May 1995 09:37:13 -0400 Received: by forbin.syr.edu (5.x/Spike-2.0) id AA11246; Wed, 31 May 1995 09:37:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 09:37:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Sedore X-Sender: cmsedore@forbin.syr.edu To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x - can it run in 4Mb? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 May 1995, Hector Gonzalez Jaime wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 1995, Karl Strickland wrote: > > > Im interested in installing FreeBSD 2.x on a 486/33 with only 4Mb of ram. > > The box acts as a dedicated internet router, routing between sl0 and two > > ethernet boards. > > > > As of the 032295 Snapshot, it runs with 4 megs, but I couldn't be > installed with 4 megs, so as a workaround, I put some extra chips on the > system for installation, and when all was installed and extracted I > returned the original 4 megs to the system, and it worked great. > > Specifically, during installation, when the bindist was extracted 4 megs > were insufficient, even with a 16 megs swap partition on the system, I > don't know if it was active. The 950412 snap installed on my 386SX-20 with 4mb of RAM via NFS over SLIP using the boot floppy procedure. Just the bindist and man pages, though. -Chris Chris Sedore Syracuse University