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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:14:35 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minimum requirements
Message-ID:  <17693.18027.492817.951831@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Alex Zbyslaw writes:

>  I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get more... .  I'm
>  sure I used to run 4.X off < 4Gb of disk

	Sometime around then it was possible* to do a completely
bare-bones installation in around 850 mb.  This meant one partition,
no swap, no X, no sources, no whole-pretty-much-anything not needed
to get a) a login prompt and b) connected.


				Robert Huff


* - by report



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