Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 01:10:43 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: "Gray, David W." <David_W_Gray@tvratings.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Current list' <FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Rc2 install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002190056420.65590-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13033661FC@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Gray, David W. wrote: > I've come to the conclusion that the -current stuff really doesn't install > on an 8 Meg machine anymore. I have an old 486/66 machine I'm using > to play with the current-RC's, and it consistantly dies loading the 'bin' > stuff. > I installed CURRENT of approx. January 1 with no problems on a 486/66 with only 8MB. Has something changed very recently that makes it impossible now? I installed through NFS. In fact the disk I installed this on is now in a laptop with only a little over 4MB (4352K), running a webserver :-) (http://keltisch.verboden.nl, in Dutch, but there is a link at the bottom "This server") You cannot install on 4 MB, nor run GENERIC kernel on 4 MB. After taking unnessary (and not strictly necessary like nfs, which is 250K) stuff out of the kernel it did run here (and is running for 28 days). O, yes, I had to make it not do the daily checks. These frooze the 4 MB box. > This isn't really a complaint -- after the load & boot cycle, there is only > 2.4M free according to the boot messages, so I can see why this would > fill up. (I wound up loading the drive on another box that usually drives my > printer, 386/25 and 24M, talk about S.L.O.W). And it can't quite compile a > kernel in one go, either. > I am not absolutely sure I succeeded compiling a kernel on 8 MB. I know I did try. But because I needed a lot of tries to cut down kernel size (and the BIOS of the laptop did not like new ata), I switched to a faster machine for kernel compiling. > Perhaps the release notes, or hardware file need to note you really do need > more than 8M ? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl http://zelf.net marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 12:56am up 11 days, 3:07, load average: 2.02 2.03 2.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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