Hi,

I want to install OpenBSD on my old pc (hardware is all supported) but I
have no clue about the amount of required memory and harddiskspace. Can
somebody please tell me?

Thanks

Huub

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:45:32 GMT
Huub <v.niekerk@freeler.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to install OpenBSD on my old pc (hardware is all supported) but I
> have no clue about the amount of required memory and harddiskspace. Can
> somebody please tell me?
>
> Thanks

I would want 3G and 32 megs ram. It can probably be done without too much trouble on 1G, but things would be cramped. There are some steps you can take (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html) to install on 16 megs ram. The same faq gives bare minimums for drive space, but they don't include the ports and src trees.

--Alex

> I would want 3G and 32 megs ram. It can probably be done without too much trouble on 1G, but things would be cramped. There are some steps you can take (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html) to install on 16 megs ram. The same faq gives bare minimums for drive space, but they don't include the ports and src trees.
>
> --Alex

Hmm..having 1.5G and max. 15MB..guess I'd be better off with something
not graphical at all..is this possible as well?
BTW, what image should I use to burn a CD from? Can't figure that out
from the i386-directory on the mirrors. I did figure out what floppy I
have to use (pc is not CD-bootable).

Huub wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to install OpenBSD on my old pc (hardware is all supported) but I
> have no clue about the amount of required memory and harddiskspace. Can
> somebody please tell me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Huub
>

Hello Huub;

I have a Pentium 60MHz with 16MB RAM and 500MB disk.
This box runs OpenBSD 3.3
I use it as router between a 56k line and the LAN
You will need more memory if you want to run something more
demanding.
I did a floppy install from the LAN, no problem and no CDROM needed.
(only possible if you have a second computer and a LAN)

You can run OpenBSD on a slower computer but not with less memory!

Good Luck
Rudy

In article <9oBLa.20293$gs1.2011976@amsnews03.chello.com>,
Huub <v.niekerk@freeler.nl> wrote:
>Thank you. Since I have 16MB RAM and 1.6GB disk, and Linux has crashed a
>number of times during install (bad memory?) , I face some hard thinking
>about what to do.

Make your computer do the hard thinking: http://www.memtest86.com/
That's a free program to test your system's RAM. Let it run overnight
to 24 hours, and if it reports any errors, I'd recommend tossing out
the RAM and buying some replacements. http://www.ebay.com has decent
selections of RAM for older systems.

Nathan Mates
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> Make your computer do the hard thinking: http://www.memtest86.com/
> That's a free program to test your system's RAM. Let it run overnight
> to 24 hours, and if it reports any errors, I'd recommend tossing out
> the RAM and buying some replacements. http://www.ebay.com has decent
> selections of RAM for older systems.
>
> Nathan Mates
Thanks. Had been testing with Checkit 3.0 and Checkit Pro, but Memtest
seems to confirm that the memory is ok and the motherboard is failing on
the high addresslines. That would explain the install-crashes.