On 27 August 2006, at 18:01, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That box doesn't have enough memory to run a current version of
FreeBSD or Linux.
I just want a version to run, a new one is obviously pushing it :)
Also what CPU does it use?
386
FreeBSD 6.x, and I'm sure
Linux 2.6, removed 386 support. You need a 486 or better to run the
current version of FreeBSD. Does this box have a math coprocessor?
Yes.
The "recommended" minimum requirements to run FreeBSD 6.1 is a Pentium
MMX, or equivalent, with 32MB of system ram. You can get by with less
but you won't like the results if you plan to use it as a workstation.
LOL, no, that would be torture, it's purely proof of concept.
Use FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE or 5.5-STABLE for anything less then that.
I did some tests on disk space and memory requirements back in January
with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. Nobody seemed to notice the first time so
I'll post it again:
Test Rig:
VMware 5 (Win2K/NTFS), VM Settings:
32MB RAM
64MB RAM For KDE-Lite Install (failed with 32MB)
128MB RAM For GNOME-Lite Install (failed with 64MB)
4GB Hard Drive (Default settings)
CD-ROM (Pointing to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 ISO Images)
No USB, No Audio, No LAN
FreeBSD Disk Layout:
ad0s1a 4095MB / ufs2
ad0s1b null swap null
ad0s1d null /var null
ad0s1e null /tmp null
ad0s1f null /usr null
Everything (/tmp, /var, and /usr) is setup on the root partition, no
swap partition was setup.
Results:
* 1st column of numbers are from the VM disk image file.
* 2nd column is from inside FreeBSD with "du -m".
* All numbers reported in megabytes.
Distribution Sets:
Developer 918 741
X-Developer 1080 882
Kern-Developer 526 427
X-Kern-Developer 690 568
User 393 319
X-User 560 461
Minimal 183 156
Extrapolated Results:
Ports System 283 270
GNOME-Lite 688 655
KDE-Lite 879 864
X.Org Default Install 164 143
X.Org Full Install 177 158
Linux Binary Compat. 255 127
Sys Sources + Proflibs 392 315
Kern Sources + Proflibs 133 109
Miscellaneous Sets:
X-User (All X.Org) 572 476
X-User + GNOME-Lite 1247 1115
X-User + KDE-Lite 1438 1323
Minimal + Ports System 466 425
Minimal + Linux Compat. 438 282
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