minimum requirements

what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for version
6.1?   e.g. diskspace, memory, etc
   
  thank you.
   
  -art
   

 		
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Art Mattox wrote:

> what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for
version 6.1?   
> e.g. diskspace, memory, etc

I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values
would be.   So recommended minimums would be somewhat
subjective
and depend on the intended use of the machine and the number
of ports and user accounts you might put on it.

For a personal work station with only a few ports, but not a
stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at least
512 MB
memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400 MHz
frontside
bus.   More and faster is nice.
A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4 the
memory
and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU.

A loaded desktop that included web server and web based
utilities
such as database services, Email and list services, etc
might do better
to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU and
storage
would go up from there depending on the size of things you
are 
serving.

////jerry

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look at:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd
-doc/2006-August/011029.html

or:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE:
4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko.
20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal
distribution set.
Mem: 2484K Active, 1396K Iact, 6004K Wired, 680K Cache,
1984K Buf, 348K 
Free Swap: 7184K Total, 2732K Used, 4452K Free, 38% Inuse
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:48:26AM -0400, Jerry McAllister
wrote:
> I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run
values
> would be.   So recommended minimums would be somewhat
subjective
> and depend on the intended use of the machine and the
number
> of ports and user accounts you might put on it.
> 
> For a personal work station with only a few ports, but
not a
> stripped DNS server or something, I would recommend at
least 512 MB
> memory and 18 GB disk and 1.5 GHz CPU with at least 400
MHz frontside
> bus.   More and faster is nice.
> A stripped router or DNS server might get by with 1/4
the memory
> and 1 GB disk and a much slower CPU.
> 
> A loaded desktop that included web server and web based
utilities
> such as database services, Email and list services, etc
might do better
> to start with 1 GB memory and 72 GB disk and 2 Ghz CPU
and storage
> would go up from there depending on the size of things
you are 
> serving.
> 
> ////jerry

I am happily running FreeBSD 6.0 on 233 Mhz 128 MB RAM
machine. It has given very good performance with very little
cause for complaint. 

It is my workstation/desktop. I am not aware of any
theoretical limit on hardware config for FreeBSD. 

Please remember to config a big enuf swap partition if ur
RAM is low. 

regards,
Girish
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Jerry McAllister wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Art Mattox
wrote:
>
>  
>
>>what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for
version 6.1?   
>>e.g. diskspace, memory, etc
>>    
>>
>
>I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run
values
>would be. 
>
I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get more... . 
I'm sure I 
used to run 4.X off < 4Gb of disk and would suspect 6.X
would fit too, 
with care.  Of course, you have to be very careful what you
actually do 
with a machine this low spec'ed.  Certainly no room to
compile firefox 
or openoffice 

--Alex



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Alex Zbyslaw writes:

>  I believe minimum ram is 24Mb but if you can get
more... .  I'm
>  sure I used to run 4.X off < 4Gb of disk

	Sometime around then it was possible* to do a completely
bare-bones installation in around 850 mb.  This meant one
partition,
no swap, no X, no sources, no whole-pretty-much-anything not
needed
to get a) a login prompt and b) connected.


				Robert Huff


* - by report
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