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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!hudson.lm.com!terrazzo.lm.com!not-for-mail From: fredh@telerama.lm.com (fredh) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD with 2MB RAM ? Date: 9 Jul 1994 02:10:51 -0400 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2vlf1b$7c7@terrazzo.lm.com> References: <UWP.94Jul8165234@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de> <michaelv.773684083@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: terrazzo.lm.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : In <UWP.94Jul8165234@titanic.cs.tu-berlin.de> uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) writes: : >Hi ! : >Is it possible to run FreeBSD on an very old 386 PC with only 2 MB RAM ? : >I don't want to run X on this machine, just a console ! : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center : michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff : Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I tried to install 1.1.5R on a machine with only two meg, forget it. It never worked, during the last part of the install while building the /dev files I was plagued with errors. I believe the errors are due to the kernal having four virtual terminals complied in. This the only thing I can see that would eat up the memory. On the other hand 1.1R worked just fine with two meg.