From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 10:19: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF3E37B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbia ([12.93.210.236]) by mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20011018171858.NDXM19017.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@columbia>; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:18:58 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Mark Thomas" , Subject: RE: Minimum requirements? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:17:20 -0400 Message-ID: <011601c157f8$be779b20$6600000a@columbia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011018124527.02737c60@pbegames.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Thomas > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:48 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Minimum requirements? > > I was just trying to drop FBSD4.4 on an old 486 box I have hanging around > and ran into a problem installing. It looks like I don't have sufficient > memory available. The machine has 8MB on board, but the install shows > messages like this after failing: You need 12 MB of physical RAM in it to install properly, but only 8 to make it run once installed. > pid 10 (sh), uid 0, ws killed: out of swap space > ... > > The web site reports 5 meg space for install is sufficient. That information appears to be out of date. Or maybe there's a trick to it that we don't know about. The consensus is 12 MB for install, 8 for operation. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message