Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:27:25 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 80386 out of GENERIC Message-ID: <20021216225725.GO97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021216.120210.113562538.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <9710634521.20021214232526@dds.nl> <3DFC0AB1.D60AAF66@mindspring.com> <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021216.120210.113562538.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Monday, 16 December 2002 at 12:02:10 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20021215223540.GB97271@wantadilla.lemis.com> > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: >> I suppose it would be a good idea to include an alternatvie i386 >> kernel on the CD-ROM. There may be a space issue, of course. How >> many people participating in this thread have an i386 with at least 12 >> MB of memory and intended to try 5.0 on it? How many of those don't >> have a machine to bootstrap off? > > 12MB? Last known "safe" value. > The last time I tried on a 16MB machine, it core dumped because it > ran out of memory. I had to put 24MB in the machine before it would > work (I couldn't try 20MB due to onhand SIMMs). Ah, good info. OK, how many 24 MB 80386 machines have you (pl) ever seen? How many do you have? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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