Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:59:25 +0200 From: Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to install/run on a 4MB machine Message-ID: <3CB5B2DD.4030401@froekjaer.org> References: <20020411110513.GA21812@mppsystems.com>
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Mike Pritchard wrote: >I recently came into possession of an old 486 laptop with only 4MB >of memory. I would like to install FreeBSD on it. What is the latest >release of FreeBSD will still install and run on 4MB? If needed, I can >build my own install floppies. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks! > >-Mike > I'm preatty sure that 3.4 will run on 4 Megs, but I'm not sure if it needs 5 for the instalation program. I used to have a laptop like that, and I'm not sure that 3.4 is the latest that will work. Does the laptop have a cdrom drive? If it does you can boot from that and fdisk, newfs the disk from there and then use dump/restore to put a working system on it. \Flemming To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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