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Raise minimum RAM requirements
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Authored by sevan on Oct 2 2016, 2:00 AM.
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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.

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sevan updated this revision to Diff 20919.Oct 2 2016, 2:00 AM
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bcr edited edge metadata.Oct 2 2016, 2:42 PM

Is this a duplicate?

bcr resigned from this revision.Oct 2 2016, 3:55 PM
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Duplicate, issue has been approved and fixed already.

sevan abandoned this revision.Oct 2 2016, 4:35 PM

Duplicate of D8112.

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