Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:40:23 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The minimal system requirements demand updating with 9.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <4EBEA177.7030801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201111121837.31888.subbsd@gmail.com> References: <201111121837.31888.subbsd@gmail.com>
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On 12/11/2011 4:37 μμ, Mr Dandy wrote: > Hi > > According to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-hardware.html" > " > Both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/pc98 require a 486 or better processor and at > least 24 MB of RAM. You will need at least 150 MB of free hard drive space for > the most minimal installation. > " > Note that the "install" chapter of the Handbook refers to installations of FreeBSD earlier than 9.0. Though it is true that 8.X cannot be installed (using sysinstall and GENERIC kernel) on a system with 24Mb RAM (Back in the days, I managed to get a trimmed kernel of 8.0-RC1 running on 24Mb RAM). I've done some preliminary testing on 9.0-RC1/386 on VirtualBox and here are my findings (all tests using GENERIC kernel): 24 Mb: Already installed system has trouble booting - processes getting killed before / during mounting of file systems. When installing, bsdinstall chokes at early stages. 32 Mb: Installed system boots. Bsdinstall chokes uncompressing tarballs 48 Mb: Bsdinstall can complete an installation as long as "ports" is not selected for installation. 64 Mb: Bsdinstall can complete a full installation (very slowly!) We should probably suggest 64Mb as an absolute minimum for 9.0 installations.
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