"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > M-Trade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486 > : w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install. > : > : avail memory = (245760) 0 MB > : > : Is this expected behavior? > > Yes. The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog. you might be able to > cope with a stripped down kernel, but sysinstall will dump core unless > you sneak in early in the process and add more swap. you really need > at least 16MB if not 24MB of RAM to install 5
If you use the project supplied installation tools (e.g. sysinstall from a monster RAM disk from a compressed disk image whose memory is pretty much not recovered, etc.). There *are* other ways to install than booting a CDROM; they are just more labor intensive, and require FreeBSD running on a more poswerful machine to set up the install for the other machine. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
