From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 17:13:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA28667 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA28662 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from max3-191.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA14497; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:13:03 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 19:13:06 -0600 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: FreeBSD in 5 megs? Cc: archie@tribe.com Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs writes: >FreeBSD 2.1.0 should be able to run in 5 megs of memory, right? >I just got the following error on a rather minimalist machine >I'm trying to bring up: > > CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU) > Origin = "Cyrix" > real memory = 5242880 (5120K bytes) > avail memory = 3858432 (3768K bytes) > Probing for devices on the ISA bus: [snip] Well I'm terribly suprised to get the following to work: n4hhe: {1} dmesg FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 11 12:20:21 CST 1996 root@n4hhe.ampr.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUGGABLE CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU) real memory = 4587520 (4480K bytes) avail memory = 3162112 (3088K bytes) Hmmm. Thought that machine was a 386SX and not a DX... For installation, I cheated. Installed on the hard drive while it was installed on another machine. But I compiled my "LUGGABLE" kernel while running GENERIC. Took forever. Then timed a recompile while running the LUGGABLE kernel and it took over 5 hours. My 16MB NexGen PCI-90 took just over 9 minutes for the same task. So in at least my case, a lesser machine than yours *runs* 2.1.0R. I'd suspect the Cyrix CPU or other hardware. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison