Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:39:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <19991006083920.I40186@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910050804420.324-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>; from Ilia Chipitsine on Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 08:06:08AM %2B0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042255080.1481-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910050804420.324-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
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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
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