Bug 211280 - Raise minimum RAM requirements
Summary: Raise minimum RAM requirements
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Sevan Janiyan
URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8112
Keywords: patch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-07-22 00:58 UTC by Sevan Janiyan
Modified: 2016-10-02 14:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Bump RAM requirement (796 bytes, patch)
2016-07-22 00:58 UTC, Sevan Janiyan 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Sevan Janiyan 2016-07-22 00:58:40 UTC 
Created attachment 172817 [details]
Bump RAM requirement

The handbook mentions that a FreeBSD installation requires a minimum 64 MB of RAM. Upon on testing, I discovered that on 9.3 & 10.3 (both amd64 builds) whilst the kernel boots & installer runs with such an amount, the installer fails when attempting to extract a set.
On 11-BETA1 it's not actually possible to boot the kernel with less than 96MB (amd64) or 92MB (i386).

Attached patch increases the minimum RAM requirement for installation to 96MB.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-10-02 14:16:51 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: sevan
Date: Sun Oct  2 14:15:50 UTC 2016
New revision: 49447
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49447

Log:
  Increase minimum RAM requirement for installation to 96MB.
  On 9.3 & 10.3 (both amd64 builds) whilst the kernel boots & installer runs with
  such an amount, the installer fails when attempting to extract a set.
  On 11 it's not actually possible to boot the kernel with less than 96MB (amd64)
  or 92MB (i386).
  Tested using VirtualBox not actual hardware.
  PR:		211280
  Obtained from:	bcr (mentor)
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8112

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml