Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:34:14 +0100 (CET) From: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE delayed until November 20th. (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011161023390.81830-100000@titanic.medinet.si> In-Reply-To: <50152.974366150@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > as the installation failed with an out of memory message. Should sysinstall > > maybe call "swapon -a" after creating partitions? > > It does, as early as possible. If things die before this point, not much > I can do. Ok, I suggest changing the handbook to mention this. Currently the handbook claims (in http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html): "In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of eight megabytes of RAM is suggested. Sixteen megabytes is the preferred amount of RAM as you may have some trouble with anything less than sixteen depending on your hardware." I suggest removing the part about eight megabytes being possible, for example: --- doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml.orig Mon Oct 30 05:26:47 2000 +++ doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml Thu Nov 16 10:33:06 2000 @@ -684,10 +684,8 @@ serial cards is also provided. FreeBSD also supports IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.</para> - <para>In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of eight - megabytes of RAM is suggested. Sixteen megabytes is the preferred - amount of RAM as you may have some trouble with anything less than - sixteen depending on your hardware.</para> + <para>In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of sixteen + megabytes of RAM is suggested.</para> <para>What follows is a list of hardware currently known to work with FreeBSD. There may be other hardware that works as well, but we Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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