From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 16:11: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CE8156CD for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA66321; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:39:20 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:39:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: Marc Schneiders , Kent Stewart , Oleg Ogurok , Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <19991006083920.I40186@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Ilia Chipitsine on Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:06:08AM +0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 5 October 1999 at 8:06:08 +0600, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > >>> I have a spare system, which is exactly Intel 386DX-33 (overclocked to >>> 40MHz) with 4Mb of RAM. I'd happy to built a system which will work >>> 24-hours only as E-mail/new/FIDO gateway. Perfomance _is_ acceptable. I >>> have a 28.8K modem for dialing out. My experience proves that 386DX-40 >>> can handle 4 x 115200 NUL-modems + 10Mb Ethernet (well, it was Linux >>> RH-5.0 boxen running as IPX <-> IP <-> IPX gateway). >>> >>> I think that my 386 boxen will stay without any use ... >>> Anybody knows, is it possible to install NetBSD/OpenBSD on 4Mb of RAM ?! >>> >> [...] >> >> It isn't possible :-( Our only relief is 2.1.7.1. That works and installs >> ok on 4 MB. > > so, 2.1.7.1 is the greatest one. where can I download it ? I don't think you can. > if it is not supported anymore, why ? Because it's obsolete. If you *really* need to do this, rather than running PicoBSD, for example, you can always get it from the repository. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message