Michael Lednev wrote:
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:27:21 +0400, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, that is normal. After installation you have got a swap configured and the system can use it if the physical RAM is not sufficient. During installation you do not have any swap available and therefore the RAM must be large enough to fit everything in it at once.
If you really wanted to you could almost certainly *run* (but not install) 5.3 with only 8 MB RAM (at least if you had a customized kernel) but I wouldn't recommend it.
that's not completely true. when i ran install on 16 mb system rebooted at
boot loader start (i didn't saw beastie :) ), and after install it loads ok
I think you misunderstood. In order to get sysinstall and the kernel from
the install floppies up, modules and all, you need greater than 16MB system
RAM. The Doc team was in the process of addressing this in the documentation
recently, but I've not read the update doc yet, so I don't know if it's been done.*
Erik's point is that an *installed* system could be slimmed down to the point
of possibly working with 8MB system RAM by configuring and building a
very tiny *custom* kernel. I'm not sure really who'd want to do that ... perhaps
for some type of embedded system?
Anyway, if the docs haven't been updated, it needs to be known that you need more than 16MB RAM to run the FreeBSD installer for versions >= 5.3-RELEASE.
For reference, see PR docs/77304.
Kevin Kinsey
* Looks like it has, see bmah's commit note ref: same PR... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
