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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
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