Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:27:26 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.kuzbass.ru> Cc: Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present Message-ID: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru>
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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. ;-) That said, it would of course be useful to have an accurate "minimum" stated -- even if it is not precise, just guaranteed to work in all circumstances. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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