8MB install

[Terry Lambert]

"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> In message: <200306251557.25303.m-trade at hotpop.com>
>             M-Trade <m-trade at hotpop.com> writes:
> : Has anyone had any success installing 5.1 release on a 486
> : w/ 8MB RAM?  I can't install.
> :
> : avail memory = (245760) 0 MB
> :
> : Is this expected behavior?
> 
> Yes.  The generic kernel is a big fat pigdog.  you might be able to
> cope with a stripped down kernel, but sysinstall will dump core unless
> you sneak in early in the process and add more swap.  you really need
> at least 16MB if not 24MB of RAM to install 5

If you use the project supplied installation tools (e.g. sysinstall
from a monster RAM disk from a compressed disk image whose memory
is pretty much not recovered, etc.).

There *are* other ways to install than booting a CDROM; they are
just more labor intensive, and require FreeBSD running on a more
poswerful machine to set up the install for the other machine.

-- Terry