From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 21:38:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA58106566C for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:38:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600368FC15 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:38:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so7001940fxm.13 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:38:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=QuHyBLeX7PckQUHi8QfkELacjpqprwSG1TlUf6rZnYc=; b=hJwPNVb/bva2rRg0a3tgmglANI6EeiUinQbq6WhrpGcsnzmMMEWAMS4YbTGAiKEzw4 cC3m7nzntNSNeX5FYF4QlYpoDK7m9dOdM8FT42qL2+JjGH03rViwetFxXr850JpuMA96 hCwRs8KLyVTutKgHRKG/vMAFrKlMdKIIVEnOo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=RMlrwu36MLMIt+UlwSQK1JdgyHfAF5a/p8XOPg3Q2Hdj86tAeckl45tBkXYdI235QO NcIx0bXsbWdhF7I0RgXyWF7LwPQcBdE2fpRD+lcLC53Uwg0oTJn2hy2tgpry5n45LaNQ zc9TdT3udjtgtMK9wE4JUQ/4NvrN/jEiHJyao= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.121.102 with SMTP id g38mr1082298far.9.1300743531655; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.56.217 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:38:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:38:51 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: aaron van caster Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:38:53 -0000 On 20 March 2011 03:52, aaron van caster wrote: > Just would like to know what are the minimum system/hardware requirements to > run 8.2 OS and do to have a simple video showing installation? > The absolute minimum to run sysinstall is something like 24MB on an 80486. I believe that once installed you can run with 16MB. 80386 support was taken out of GENERIC some time ago (6.x, maybe?). I don't know if those chips are supported at all, any more. Hard drive space is MUCH larger in a default install than 4,5,&6.x, but if you are creative you can get a whole system on a 350MB HDD. The embedded guys would have a lot better notion than I do. As a beginner, you should really consider 4GB to be a practical minimum. I don't know what to think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=perc0_7n52I I usually try to save my dancing until /after/ the install. -- --