Re: FYI: min. memory requirements for a -CURRENT install on i386

2005-08-07 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:21:37PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > As part of that discussion, I was speculating that there is probably a > difference between the requirements of floppy37.fs vs. cdrom37.fs vs. > cd37.iso. Which did you use on your test? Also..was that -current or > 3.7-release/-stab

Re: FYI: min. memory requirements for a -CURRENT install on i386

2005-08-06 Thread Nick Holland
Matthias Kilian wrote: > Just FYI: > > recently there were some discussion wether an installation on i386 > hardware with 16 MB or less would be possible (and usable) or not. > Beeing curious, I just made a release(8) (without X11), and gave > it a try with qemu. > > Result: you can do a complete

FYI: min. memory requirements for a -CURRENT install on i386

2005-08-06 Thread Matthias Kilian
Just FYI: recently there were some discussion wether an installation on i386 hardware with 16 MB or less would be possible (and usable) or not. Beeing curious, I just made a release(8) (without X11), and gave it a try with qemu. Result: you can do a complete install with 12MB RAM, but for running