From: todd Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:50:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: From Ian Darwin X-Git-Url: http://artulab.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d46d33f5c74a7914243992c793e6202336f705e;p=openbsd From Ian Darwin --- diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware index f5f55004c57..a3b54d3a4bb 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware @@ -1,14 +1,15 @@ OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The -minimal configuration is said to require 4M of RAM and 50M of disk space, -though we do not know of anyone running with a system quite this minimal today. -To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X -or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of RAM will -actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy. -Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more -important than getting a faster CPU.) - +minimal configuration to install the system is 6M or 8M of RAM and +perhaps 50M of disk space. A custom kernel might be able to run +with only 4MB, though we do not know of anyone running with a system +quite this minimal today. To install the entire system requires +much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM +is recommended. (8M of RAM will actually allow you to run X and/or +compile but it won't be speedy. Note that until you have around 16M +of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU.) + Supported devices {:-include-:}: Floppy controllers. MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.