From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 17:54:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7798116A4DF for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:54:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83DC43D64 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1767377wxd for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:53:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HiqoCD5mn+RtKeg/FhmVgvv3ZuJlB6aGk5Lxazi8uaYuLTtP66GvABHTGrOOyrT5xXCyr04KfvBzNfFzq4zUypxcMo77MLKj5AiTkcGAP5GlLemmG7ldGJydT9q317ylZUXiPJv+DDJOw8JnNn+mWGm7NGmhWlJnJYRxw4VqjZM= Received: by 10.70.122.13 with SMTP id u13mr9705301wxc; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:53:44 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Charles Swiger" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060828111223.GD983@zaphod.nitro.dk> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:54:12 -0000 On 8/28/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/28/06, Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > On 2006.08.28 00:19:40 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >> I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE > > >> through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: > > > > > > Thanks for doing these tests! > > > > Seconded (or thirded). > > > > > (Note: I don't know when I will find time to get this into some docs, > > > so if anybody else is interested in this please just go forward :-) ). > > > > I'm willing to do the SGML markup, so I can take this one. This > > information should be used to update the FAQ 3.4 & 3.5 entries, and/ > > or add a section in chapter 4 with the details...? > > > > Nikolas, are you OK with this? > > > > Yep... knock yourself out. > If you can think of anything else now is the time to speak up. It should be stressed that these memory requirements set the floor... Not all distribution sets and/or packages on the disc will install using the minimum amount of ram, for example kde-lite and gnome-lite packages will hang sysinstall unless you have 64MB ~ 128MB of ram, I did not thoroughly test this so speak up now and I'll get you some numbers to work with. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/