Hello Shr,
Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 10:00:22 PM, you wrote:
sdc> I've searched the FAQ and the Web for any guidance on what the minimum RAM
sdc> is for OpenBSD, with and without X.
sdc> I just acquired a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop that maxes out at 24 MB of
sdc> RAM, and I'm wondering whether or not it's feasible to run OpenBSD on it.
$ dmesg
OpenBSD 3.5 (GENERIC) #34: Mon Mar 29 12:24:55 MST 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel 486DX (486-class)
real mem = 20824064 (20336K)
avail mem = 13275136 (12964K)
using 279 buffers containing 1142784 bytes (1116K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 01/10/94
pcibios at bios0 function 0x1a not configured
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0/48 iomem 0xa0000/131072
wsdisplay0 at vga0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC21600H>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 1549MB, 3173184 sectors
wd1 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 1: <QUANTUM FIREBALL EX5.1A>
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 4892MB, 10018890 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
wd1(wdc0:0:1): using BIOS timings
ep0 at isa0 port 0x300/16 irq 10: address 00:20:af:27:c1:5d, utp/aui/bnc
(default utp)
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16450, no fifo
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16450, no fifo
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 4040 netmask 4440 ttymask 44c2
pctr: no performance counters in CPU
dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
dkcsum: wd1 matched BIOS disk 81
root on wd0a
rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
$ swapctl -kl
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
swap_device 102312 4420 97892 4% 0
$ uptime
10:07AM up 378 days, 16:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.20, 0.21, 0.14
It's 486DX4 50MHz with 20 meg of RAM, working as a production (!)
secondary mail/DNS server. Has been used (and occasionally being used) as
an ftp server (vsftp) - login process is slow, but transfer(s) at full T1
speed causing no problem.
I've installed a GENERIC 3.5 from floppy/ftp very easily. Modern boxes
are giving me much more troubles.
There is no X, of course.
Don't know if OBSD 4.4 require much more resources than 3.5, but the
size of GENERIC kernel is just a little bigger.
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Best regards,
Boris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
