Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 09:37:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.x - can it run in 4Mb? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950531093502.13931A-100000@forbin.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950526105810.29214A-100000@eureka.gdl.iteso.mx>
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On Fri, 26 May 1995, Hector Gonzalez Jaime wrote: > > On Thu, 25 May 1995, Karl Strickland wrote: > > > Im interested in installing FreeBSD 2.x on a 486/33 with only 4Mb of ram. > > The box acts as a dedicated internet router, routing between sl0 and two > > ethernet boards. > > > > As of the 032295 Snapshot, it runs with 4 megs, but I couldn't be > installed with 4 megs, so as a workaround, I put some extra chips on the > system for installation, and when all was installed and extracted I > returned the original 4 megs to the system, and it worked great. > > Specifically, during installation, when the bindist was extracted 4 megs > were insufficient, even with a 16 megs swap partition on the system, I > don't know if it was active. The 950412 snap installed on my 386SX-20 with 4mb of RAM via NFS over SLIP using the boot floppy procedure. Just the bindist and man pages, though. -Chris Chris Sedore Syracuse University
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