From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 12:50:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B0D16A4E0 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06E043D45 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:50:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (rahsrq@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7SCnvnS055816; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:50:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k7SCnuP1055815; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:49:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:49:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200608281249.k7SCnuP1055815@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no In-Reply-To: <20060827034652.ad43299b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:50:06 -0000 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Are 16 Megs of RAM to little to install FreeBSD 6.0 or newer? As others have pointed out, installation via sysinstall requires at least 24 MB of RAM. So you either have to prepare your own installation media, or put the harddisk in a different PC, install FreeBSD there, and move the disk back. In any case you should carefully tune your kernel confi- guration to only include those things that you really need. There are also options to exclude certain parts, e.g. the syscons driver has seveal options to exclude copy&paste, font loading and other things, which can save some space. Don't forget to configure plenty of swap space; you'll probably need it. And have a look at the tuning(7) man page which has several hints that may help for low-memory situations. If you want to run X11 (a current version of Xorg), you absolutely must upgrade the RAM. You won't be happy with 16 MB only. But even with more RAM, running X11 won't be much fun, because the CPU isn't very fast, I guess. If you want to run a light-weight graphical web browser, I recommend links (in X11 graphics mode, option "-g") or dillo. Both are available from the ports collection. They support only limited JavaScript, though, and no Flash, Java or anything more advanced. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "IRIX is about as stable as a one-legged drunk with hypothermia in a four-hundred mile per hour wind, balancing on a banana peel on a greased cookie sheet -- when someone throws him an elephant with bad breath and a worse temper." -- Ralf Hildebrandt