From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 12:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457D237B609 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Jhpo-000LEO-00; Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:36:16 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13Jhpn-0006hR-00; Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:36:15 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:36:15 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: scotchman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System Requirements Message-ID: <20000801203615.D49446@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <003201bffbe0$acf2c2a0$d6cdf5d1@a4z2t6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <003201bffbe0$acf2c2a0$d6cdf5d1@a4z2t6> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG scotchman wrote: > What are the system requirements to use FreeBSD? Thanks. A mailer which doesn't send mail in HTML format is very useful. Seriously, assuming you're using the i386 version, you need a 386 or above with at least 12MB of RAM (I think that's the latest figure for RAM, it seems to change a lot). I think you can run in 8 but you need 12 for install. I'd give 16 as the lowest practical minimum. As for disk space, it depends how much you want to do with it, but you should be able to do a minimal install in about 200MB plus a bit for swap. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message