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Subject: Re: 4.4-Release on 386DX w/ 8MB RAM
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> I tried to do an FTP install of 4.4-Release on an old 386-40 w/ 8MB of RAM,
> but the install fails immediately after I setup the network. I receive the
> error message, "Cannot resolve hostname '[Insert arbitrary FTP site name]'!
> Are you sure that the name server, gateway and network interface are
> correctly configured?"
> 

...

> 
> DEBUG: ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.10.1  netmask 255.255.255.0pid 19 (sh),
> uid 0 was killed: out of swap space
> DEBUG: Adding default route to 192.168.10.254pid 20 (sh), uid0 was killed:
> out of swap space
> 
> There are other similar messages preceding these two stating "out of swap
> space," but none of these are pertinent to the network setup, nor are they
> prepended with "DEBUG:" They also appear during the 4.3 install so I
> presume, perhaps incorrectly, they are not critical.
> 
> Did 4.4-Release introduce heightened memory requirements that make
> installation impossible on a machine with 8MB of RAM? Is this a very
> strange install bug? Or am I simply doing something wrong?
> 

...


Hi Matt,

yes, somewhere since FreeBSD 4.x the amount of memory needed for _installation_
changed to 12 MB. 

In the mailing list archives it is mentioned sometimes.

Hope that helps

Marc



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