On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:06PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > >well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16 > >should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some form > >of useful error message instead of just rebooting. it just makes no sense. > > > > Interestingly, the Installation Notes for 4.11-R, > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/installation-i386.html state, in > section 1.2 Hardware Requirements, "The sysinstall(8) installation > program requires 16MB of RAM" > > Does sysinstall in 5.3 _really_ need half the RAM that 4.11 requires? I > find that hard to believe.
No...this has been established elsethread and a PR has been submitted. Kris
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