From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 15:32:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8ED37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72D843E6E for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g91MW9kn001262; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:32:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:32:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Liquid , Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation In-Reply-To: <20021001222556.GA41509@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Message-ID: <20021002002707.N614-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, at 00:25 [=GMT+0200], Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Liquid wrote: > Recent versions of FreeBSD require at least 16MB RAM to install. > The last version that could be installed on 8MB RAM was FreeBSD 3.2 > One possibility is to install 3.2 on it and then upgrade to 4.x in > steps afterwards. Or put the harddisk in another machine and install/configure FreeBSD 4 there. Some time ago I got some 3 version running that way on a notebook (486/33) with 5MB (640k + 4MB actually), installing on another 486, making kernel stripped of all that was not necessary (NFS costs a lot of bytes) there too, and it did run. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message