Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-15 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Thanks for all replies and suggestions. sounds like I can give 6 a try. I can move the hd to a bigger machine for installing and compiling. ...except that pcic and card have been removed from -current :( so it's back to 5.4R chris

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-14 Thread Chris
Thanks for all replies and suggestions. sounds like I can give 6 a try. I can move the hd to a bigger machine for installing and compiling. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Aug-12 21:38:43 +0100, Chris wrote: The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD for the i386

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Saturday, 13. August 2005 10:32, Peter Jeremy wrote: 24MB should be adequate as a SOHO wireless router/NAT box but doing compilations will stress it significantly (as you've noticed). Probably stating the obvious here, but that's where those fine binary packages FreeBSD builds from ports

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say : FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM. : : Did the memory requirement really jump that much or is something : different being

Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Chris
Hi The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM. Did the

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Hi The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
hello, The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM. [ .. ] I have on old tosh 110CT laptop with 24mb memory I want to set up as a wireless router/NAT box but would prefer to use 6 or 5.4. I've run 5.X for about

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Chris wrote: Hi The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say FreeBSD