From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 17 23:22:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E556F37B400 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0I7M7N91140; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:22:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:22:07 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Michael Sierchio Cc: Eugene Grosbein , Matt Penna , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present Message-ID: <20020118082207.D91029@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru> <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com>; from kudzu@tenebras.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:27:26PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:27:26PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: > 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. ;-) All good and well but not all machines can use DIMMs. Like my firewall, an older P90. That old hardware is frequently used in roles like these. For x86 I suggest to consider 16MB to be the minimum, for Alpha 32MB. ( On x86 12MB appears to work, on Alpha 16MB If you consider slow as molasses reasonable that is..) W/ -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message