Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:20:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Paul Apple <paula@jeffnet.org>, HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> Cc: Walter Collins <wcollins@best.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum System Requirements? Message-ID: <19990306132018.Q490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903051500400.1093-100000@ellie.my.domain>; from Paul Apple on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 03:07:46PM -0800 References: <36DF9CF9.515A19B9@telspace.alcatel.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903051500400.1093-100000@ellie.my.domain>
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On Friday, 5 March 1999 at 15:07:46 -0800, Paul Apple wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, HERBELOT Thierry wrote: >> Walter Collins wrote: >>> >>> What are the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD. I was trying to setup >>> a friend with a UNIX learning machine (single user 386) and the installation >>> would bomb, hang and so on. (200 mg unallocated drive space) >> >> It seems you have to have more than 8 Megs of RAM to install 3.1 > > According to the INSTALL.TXT file on the distribution cdrom (disk 1) > only 5 megabytes of RAM are required to install and 4 megabytes to run. > Has this changed? We're not sure. We've seen a number of reports that you need more than 8 MB. It's not intended to be like that, and we're investigating, but since hardly anybody uses such small memory sizes, it's possible that a problem has crept in. We're pretty sure that you can still install 2.2.8 in 5 MB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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