Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 09:07:23 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very small machine - RAM? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970506090204.4479d-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1450.199705051518@ganoid.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote: > How much memory is the minimum that would be needed for a very small FBSD > system? It wouldn't need to run the installer (5MB), so certainly 4MB would > be enough - but would 3 or 2 be OK? It only needs an IDE disk and a net 4 MB is the best you could realistically do. I have a customer with a 4 MB machine, and it is a pain to do administrative work on. 3 years ago I ran a router as a 386SX-16 with 2 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk. It took 20 seconds to start 'vi', almost as long to let me log in. But this was using FreeBSD 1.1, which had a smaller memory footprint than 2.x. RAM is cheap. Use it and be happy. Where are you going to get 3 MB of RAM from anyway? You still have 256k SIMMs lying around? Sell them as keyrings and buy so real RAM. Danny
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