On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200306251557.25303.m-trade_at_hotpop.com> > M-Trade <m-trade_at_hotpop.com> writes: > : Hello, > : > : Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486 > : w/ 8MB RAM? I can't install. > : > : avail memory = (245760) 0 MB > : > : Is this expected behavior? > > Yes. The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog. you might be able to > cope with a stripped down kernel, but sysinstall will dump core unless > you sneak in early in the process and add more swap. you really need > at least 16MB if not 24MB of RAM to install 5 Last week I installed a Pentium 90 with 16 MB - 5.1 couldn't even start the installation menu, 4.8 went well without any problems or special configuration. Uli. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 08:51:02 UTC
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