Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-15 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Thanks for all replies and suggestions. sounds like I can give 6 a try. I can move the hd to a bigger machine for installing and compiling. ...except that pcic and card have been removed from -current :( so it's back to 5.4R chris __

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-14 Thread Chris
Thanks for all replies and suggestions. sounds like I can give 6 a try. I can move the hd to a bigger machine for installing and compiling. Chris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To un

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say : "FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM". : : Did the memory requirement really jump that much or is something : different being mea

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Saturday, 13. August 2005 10:32, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 24MB should be adequate as a SOHO wireless router/NAT box but doing > compilations will stress it significantly (as you've noticed). Probably stating the obvious here, but that's where those fine binary packages FreeBSD builds from ports

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Aug-12 21:38:43 +0100, Chris wrote: >The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform >" ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with >a pared-down kernel" > >The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say >"FreeBSD for the i

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Chris wrote: > Hi > > The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform > " ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with > a pared-down kernel" > > The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
hello, > The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say > "FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM". > [ .. ] > I have on old tosh 110CT laptop with 24mb memory I want to set up as a > wireless router/NAT box but would prefer to use 6 or 5.4. I've run 5.X for

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-12 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: Hi The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform " ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a pared-down kernel" The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say "FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of