16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Sunday 27 August 2006 09:13, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 03:46:52 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> >I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd,
>
> ...
>
> >However, when I try the 6.1-release CD (CD1), it boots as far as
> >loading the kernel, botting the kernel, and then reboots again??
>
> The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked.
> Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB (though
> not very happily).  I strongly suggest you find a SODIMM to expand it.

A friend of mine installed 6.1 successfully on a pentium with 48MB ram. It 
runs quite well actually :) He didn't try to to install X however.