Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:22:07 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.kuzbass.ru>, Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present Message-ID: <20020118082207.D91029@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com>; from kudzu@tenebras.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:27:26PM -0800 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru> <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:27:26PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > 4.2 was the last release that can be installed from FTP using NIC > > with 8Mb RAM/no swap. It's still possible to install 4.4-RELEASE > > from FTP using NIC with 8Mb RAM but the first step in sysinstall must > > be allocation of some swap space and activating it with key 'W' > > in Label Editor screen. Otherwise, sysinstall will run out of memory while > > configuring ethernet interface. > > > > Sheesh. 64MB of PC133 RAM is USD 22.00. 1GB of PC133w/ECC is $325. Cheaper > than these is the brick you can use to bash your head for being too cheap > to buy memory. ;-) All good and well but not all machines can use DIMMs. Like my firewall, an older P90. That old hardware is frequently used in roles like these. For x86 I suggest to consider 16MB to be the minimum, for Alpha 32MB. ( On x86 12MB appears to work, on Alpha 16MB If you consider slow as molasses reasonable that is..) W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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