On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:28, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Wayne "Thanatos" McBroom wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > I got a hold of a Duracom 486/SX. Which FreeBSD do you think would > > work on it? Just trying to replace the 3.11 system on it. Thanks. > > Later..... > > I suppose it depends on how much RAM you have. You need more RAM to > install FreeBSD than you do to actually run it. The release notes for > 4.10 say this: > > 1.2 Hardware Requirements > > FreeBSD for the i386 requires an 80386 or better processor. The > sysinstall(8) installation program requires 16MB of RAM; after > installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a > pared-down kernel. You will need at least 100MB of free hard drive > space for the most minimal installation; a more realistic minimum is > on the order of 250-350MB. See below for ways of shrinking existing > DOS partitions in order to install FreeBSD. > > If you are not familiar with configuring hardware for FreeBSD, you > should be sure to read the HARDWARE.TXT file; it contains important > information on what hardware is supported by FreeBSD. > > If you're short on RAM, you can have great fun cabling the drive in and > installing with another machine, and then compiling a custom kernel to > select the appropriate CPU type and remove literally everything you > don't need. Then, tweak your rc.conf to remove all unnecessary daemons > (named, sendmail, usbd, and even cron, syslogd and the like, if you can > survive without). > > - Ryan
Another way to overcome the memory limit: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2967388+0+archive/2004/freebsd-questions/20040215.freebsd-questions -- Jeremy Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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