Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:50:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, 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: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910060148590.979-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991006083920.I40186@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >>> 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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The point was to run with less than 8 MB. Pico needs 8.
2.1.7.1 *is* available at:
ftp.de.freebsd.org
in
/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7.1-RELEASE
Marc
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