Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:58:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Brian Dean <brdean@mindspring.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906131953470.79546-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <19990612192410.A70348@mad>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > It is true that you can run a system with as little as 4 meg. I've > installed 2.2 on a system with 4 meg (it was one of the ones that had > a cool motherboard and needed 4 meg instead of 5). Joerg claims he > used to run FreeBSD on a system with only 2 meg. You can't use the > GENERIC installation kernel to run on these low-memory machines, > though. You most certainly can RUN in 4MB, even without any swap partition. I sit in front of such a system :-) - it runs shell, inetd, snmpd, can accept telnet connections, and work as a firewall. Well, with some additional hacking you could probably run in 2MB with swapping (but most of the system activity would be spent this way :-) Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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