From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 16:53:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68FE156B7 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.105.241] (helo=propro) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 11YeLe-00044P-00; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:50:22 +0000 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:50:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders To: Greg Lehey Cc: Ilia Chipitsine , Kent Stewart , Oleg Ogurok , Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release In-Reply-To: <19991006083920.I40186@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 > 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 -- Marc Schneiders || || marc@venster.nl || Null message body; marc@oldserver.demon.nl || hope that's ok To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message