From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 3 11:45:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from high-voltage.com (voltage.high-voltage.com [205.243.158.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33012152D9 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 13:39 -0600 From: "Brian McGroarty" To: "Charles Randall" , "Chris" , "Pentium Cowboy" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: RE: 2mb ram Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 6 megs was sufficient for an install of 3.2-RELEASE via FTP. X was never attempted. I removed non-present devices via the visual configurator before beginning. I don't know whether the last had an impact as I never attempted this without doing so. Configuration was: 386/DX-16 2 NE2000s 1 meg SVGA Single IDE hard drive 5.25" and 3.5" floppies And no, this isn't trivial. This system is used for NAT. With the kernel properly configured, it out-performs a 200 Pentium MMX running NT Server 4 and WinRoute and cost half as much as the NT NAT package. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Randall [mailto:crandall@matchlogic.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:06 PM To: Brian McGroarty; Chris; Pentium Cowboy Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: RE: 2mb ram Actually, it's now 12 MB to install 3.2. There is/was an open PR on this, but I can't find it. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:chrismar@raiani.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:01 PM To: Pentium Cowboy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2mb ram -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Just to ellaborate on an otherwise correct response- Hardware requirements. FreeBSD requires a PC-type personal computer running with an Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or compatible 386, 486, or Pentium CPU. You computer needs an ISA, EISA, VESA, or PCI bus. You will also need 5 megabytes of RAM to install FreeBSD (but 4 megabytes to run it after installation). For best performance, you should have 8 megabytes or more. 60MB of disk space is required for a minimal installation. Your disk is fine (albeit a little on the tiny side), but you'll need at *LEAST* 4 mb to run FreeBSD and 5 to install. Chris On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Dragon Knight ][ wrote: > > > I have an old ps/1 windows 3.1 computer with 85mb hard drive, and 2mb > > memory. I wish to install freebsd on it as a primary os. my question > > is... IS IT POSSIBLE? > > > No. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBN6cuRfbh8rV07zbRAQGFPgL7BaMuW5vfqrxh+rpJGaYnL5eygp+5e733 ww+Zaf2V0waX0Kawp2QwoHfulPQhO125KXA4V1fkwkbVOkFVoXYlV8X00zPAaQS7 D1IkmNWAPAYeqtTE2kiOp2M8OIRWT3lB =LToR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message