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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: FreeBSD 2.x - can it run in 4Mb?
From:       Christopher Sedore <cmsedore () mailbox ! syr ! edu>
Date:       1995-05-31 13:37:00
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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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