Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20627; Sat, 30 Sep 95 03:34:30 EDT Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA27455; Sat, 30 Sep 95 03:34:03 EDT Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA20488 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:32:48 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA20417 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:31:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA20408 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:30:59 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA25654 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:30:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA16280 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:30:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA14138 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:28:46 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509300728.IAA14138@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:28:46 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15228.812444517@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 30, 95 00:01:57 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 658 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > To fit in all the drivers we need to cover a reasonable set > of devices required at installation-time, we need more than > 4MB and if we didn't need it today, we'd need it tomorrow. But why doubling it instead of successively increasing? My notebook has 5 MB, and the last private 2.1-snap installed fine. (Don't assume there ain't wierd memory sizes, 4 MB is 4x256K + 4x1M; i've got another box with 6 MB around. 8 MB is not necessarily the next logical step above 4 MB.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)