Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:26:08 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Micke Josefsson" <mj@isy.liu.se>, "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jason Heibult" <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu> Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <00a801c0844c$fdeca820$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <XFMail.010122090437.mj@isy.liu.se>
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The 386 bit is OK & maybe even a 120Mb hard drive for a bare minimum command line only 3.x installation, but as Jeremiah stated, 200Mb is smallest practical for 4.x & then only for command line systems. I dunno about install of 3.x or 4.x with either 4 or 8Mb RAM .... there have been quite a number of postings from people who have attempted that but I've yet to see that one has succeeded ...... at least 12Mb appears to be necessary & 16Mb is a more realistic minimum. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micke Josefsson" <mj@isy.liu.se> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Jason Heibult" <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD > > On 22-Jan-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > >> I was wondering what the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD are? > > > > A 386sx 16mhz, either 4 or 8 megs ram, and probably a 100 meg hard drive. > > You'll have problems with a harddisk smaller than 120 Megs. But in any way such > a system has no man pages, and you can't add ports and have no space for your > own files even. A more practical smallest HD is 200Megs. > > > > > > > Yes, I'm serious. Of course I wouldn't recommend such a computer. More > > useful information would be: I run my Pentium 75mhz laptop with 32 megs ram > > under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. No problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > > 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
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