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From: sam@wa4phy.async.com (S.W. Drinkard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4 meg INSTALL?
Date: 11 Jun 1996 13:18:13 -0400
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) writes:

>In article <4phgqt$ott@heathers.stdio.com>,
>James Risner <risner@stdio.com> wrote:
>>Does anyone have a 2.1 boot floppy?
>>(4 meg max memory one) as I can not increase the memory on this machine.

>If you don't mind running development code, the 2.2-SNAP releases have
>4MB boot disks. Otherwise I'm afraid the best I can suggest is going
>back to 2.0.5.

>-- 
>James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
>james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
>jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG


I've successfully been using 2.1R for about 6 months now, and only have 4M
of memory.  During the install tho, I did specify 16M swap.  Not doing a
heck of alot with this box, but no problems..  

-sam-

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