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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,tw.bbs.comp.386bsd Subject: Re: The optimize equipment for a mail server Date: 27 Apr 1996 07:56:06 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4lsjum$89n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <317924e7.18989540@news.seed.net.tw> <4lml8o$9g9@news.zipnet.net> <4lo2a5$rt4@hops.entertain.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) writes: [comp.mail.sendmail removed from the newsgroups header.] >>Customized kernel? No X-windows? 4Mb will be just fine! >> > >I thought that FreeBSD needs at least 5 or 6 megs of RAM?! It required > 4 MB to _install_ in a previous version. There have been some reports that it could be installed nevertheless, basically for those machines that can remap the ``ISA memory hole'' and make these 384 KB also avaiable. This has been fixed again, there's now a second installation floppy for 4 MB systems (as a compromise, better a second floppy than not being able to install at all). I've almost had the system running within 2 MB once. Single-user mode worked, but any ``real work'' paniced the machine. The bug that was causing this (some incorrect kernel VM accounting) has been fixed since, so perhaps i should retry the experiment. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)