Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:49:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Mini <mini@micron.efn.org> To: "Dennis J. Eberl" <dww@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with a little Zip? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970602164818.3491B-100000@micron.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <33924F63.6036@buffnet.net>
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Dennis J. Eberl wrote: This should go to questions, but yes it will. I have run FreeBSD on 2.1.5-R on 386 4meg systems with old RLL drives before. *sigh* It was surprisingly fast. Several people I know use Zip Disks for their OS, thereby making a cheap way to keep FreeBSD, Win95, etc on the same system and have plenty of disk space. > I have a 33 MHz '486 w/8 MB RAM, a small HD, and a Zip drive (SCSI, not > parallel port). Sure, I'll probably need more RAM (assuming FreeBSD will > even install on a '486), but what I am really wondering is can I install > onto a Zip disk thus avoiding having to partition my HD? > > Thanks. Dying to try unix. > > Dennis Eberl > Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org) ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ...
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