"Can I install FreeBSD with only 4MB of RAM"? No.

Remove advice to install FreeBSD 2.0.5.

Remove 2.1.7 installation suggestion.

Leave a reference to FreeBSD 2.1.7, only to give this asker a sense of
"We're no longer in the stone age."

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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
index d3d2f0a5de..22ad81563a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml
@@ -1272,19 +1272,6 @@ File: +DESC (ignored)</screen>
             a system which has &gt;4MB, install onto the disk and then
             swap it back.</para>
 
-          <para>FreeBSD 2.1.7 will not install with 640 kB base + 3 MB
-            extended memory. If your motherboard can remap some of the
-            <quote>lost</quote> memory out of the 640kB to 1MB region,
-            then you may still be able to get FreeBSD 2.1.7 up.  Try
-            to go into your BIOS setup and look for a
-            <quote>remap</quote> option.  Enable it.  You may also
-            have to disable ROM shadowing.  It may be easier to get 4
-            more MB just for the install.  Build a custom kernel with
-            only the options you need and then remove the 4MB out.
-            You can also install 2.0.5 and then upgrade your system to
-            2.1.7 with the <quote>upgrade</quote> option of the 2.1.7
-            installation program.</para>
-
           <para>After the installation, if you build a custom kernel,
             it will run in 4 MB. Someone has even successfully booted
             with 2 MB, although the system was almost unusable.</para>