On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> 8M of ram is pretty tight. Maybe you could get away with that on i386,
> but my custom mac68k kernel uses just about that much all by itself.
> 16-20M would probably be fine, though it may be possible to boot a
> stripped down kernel with only 8M.

Not sure about the current kernels, but (FWIW) as of about 1.3 or maybe
1.3.1, I was booting GENERIC's fine on a IIsi with only 5 megs and a PB145
with only 6.  :-)


Later,
David

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