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-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/hp300/hardware10
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diff --git a/distrib/notes/hp300/contents b/distrib/notes/hp300/contents
index 5e1a193b257..138766f297e 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/hp300/contents
+++ b/distrib/notes/hp300/contents
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+dnl $OpenBSD: contents,v 1.25 2002/04/07 22:35:30 miod Exp $
TopPart
OpenBSDdistsets
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ OpenBSDbsd
OpenBSDrd
SYS_UBOOT Unified boot file, used for booting from
- the network.
+ disk or from the network.
SYS_CDBOOT Raw boot file, used for booting from
CDROM.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/hp300/hardware b/distrib/notes/hp300/hardware
index 4b6afc53675..543ae130dc5 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/hp300/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/hp300/hardware
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV will run on most HP 9000/300- and 400-series
machines.
-The lowest amount of RAM that has ever been tested is 7.5M, though it
-may run with less. A GENERIC kernel won't run in 4M, while a custom
-kernel can fit. However, if you wish to run X, more RAM is recommended.
+6MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
+be squeezed onto a 100MB partition by installing just the minimum sets.
+To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than
+booting, more RAM and disk space is highly recommended. About 250MB will be
+necessary to install all of the OpenBSD OSREV binary distribution (note that
+this does not count swap space!). Much more disk space is required to
+install the source and objects as well (about another 600MB).
The following HP hardware is supported: