Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:15:27 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> Cc: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.kuzbass.ru>, Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present Message-ID: <20020118181527.GF67507@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201181155160.9535-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> References: <3C47C04D.27F6A894@tenebras.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201181155160.9535-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:07:33PM -0600, John Utz wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > > > > 4.2 was the last release that can be installed from FTP using NIC > > > with 8Mb RAM/no swap. It's still possible to install 4.4-RELEASE > > > from FTP using NIC with 8Mb RAM but the first step in sysinstall must > > > be allocation of some swap space and activating it with key 'W' > > > in Label Editor screen. Otherwise, sysinstall will run out of memory while > > > configuring ethernet interface. > > > > > > > Sheesh. 64MB of PC133 RAM is USD 22.00. 1GB of PC133w/ECC is $325. Cheaper > > than these is the brick you can use to bash your head for being too cheap > > to buy memory. ;-) > I managed to get my micron 2 x 512MB ddr266 Registered ECC for $200 -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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