Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:18:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Dennis Mathiasen <dennisma@adelphia.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4-STABLE on 386? Message-ID: <200112140818.fBE8IxM51141@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:28:56 %2B1100." <20011203082856.G910@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20011203082856.G910@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <NFBBLPGAMKGJPAINGIJKAENMCIAA.dennisma@adelphia.net>
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In message <20011203082856.G910@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes: : On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:24:14AM -0500, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: : >Is it possible to install 4-STABLE on a 386DX with 8 Meg of memory? : : AFAIK, no. The 4.4-RELEASE CD states 16MB - most of this is because : the installation filesystem is an MFS unpacked off the floppy. Once : you've installed the system, it'll run in 8MB. Your options would : seem to be: I found that 12M on a pc98 machine was too little to do the 4.4 install on it. However, I was able to just squeek by when I built a massively trimmed kernel. The 8M RAM machine was a lost cause. I wound up getting more RAM for these machines on my last trip to Japan so I could install FreeBSD on them. The 8M RAM machine did work OK with a disk I'd installed on another machine. # Maybe I have too many pc98 machine. Certainly the largest # collection outside Japan with 3 laptops :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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