Matthias Kilian wrote: > Just FYI: > > recently there were some discussion wether an installation on i386 > hardware with 16 MB or less would be possible (and usable) or not. > Beeing curious, I just made a release(8) (without X11), and gave > it a try with qemu. > > Result: you can do a complete install with 12MB RAM, but for running > and *using* the installed system (with sshd and ntpd enabled), you > need 16 MB. [In theory 13 MB are enough, but then the system starts > trashing as soon as a ksh(1) a top(1) are running.] > > Ciao, > Kili
As part of that discussion, I was speculating that there is probably a difference between the requirements of floppy37.fs vs. cdrom37.fs vs. cd37.iso. Which did you use on your test? Also..was that -current or 3.7-release/-stable? Thanks for doing that test, as I have been sadly deficient on testing that recently... Nick.
