Re: i386 minimum space requirements

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 08:16:48PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> NetBSD/i386 System Requirements and Supported Devices
> 
> NetBSD 9.3 runs on all i486 or later PC-compatible systems with 1 to 32
> processors. The minimal configuration for a full, standard installation is
> 32MB of RAM and 250MB of disk space.

This is also encoded in usr.sbin/sysinst/arch/i386/md.h:

/* Megs required for a full X installation. */
#define XNEEDMB 250

#define DEBNEEDMB       1024     /* Extra megs for debug sets */


and the X size probably comes from an older version of X11 (and especially
before the DRM drivers).

We should update it, and also verify all other architectures, I guess amd64
and evbarm have their numbers off too.

Martin