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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:
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> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote:
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>>> 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
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