Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:32:38 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Older versions Message-ID: <20030108002211.N14132@slave.east.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030107231612.GC7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <courier.3E1B4711.00004753@softhome.net> <20030107225444.GB7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <20030107235705.E83991@slave.east.ath.cx> <20030107231612.GC7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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On Jan 7 Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:00:02AM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > > Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, lattera@softhome.net wrote: > > > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > > > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! > > > > > > > > lattera > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > What type of processor does it have? 1.9MB of RAM is not very much. > > > Even PicoBSD, the single floppy version of FreeBSD, would like to have > > > 8MB of memory. I have serious doubts that you will be able to get > > > virtually anything to run in 1.9MB of memory. I could be wrong, and if > > > someone knows of a tiny OS that will run under these conditions I'd be > > > curious to know about it. I have recently been looking around at some > > > tiny Linux installations, but even those absolutely require at least 4MB > > > of memory. > > > > minix? > > > > from the minix install.txt: > > ... > > 1. REQUIREMENTS > > The minimum system MINIX can be installed on comfortably is > > an IBM PC/AT or PS/2 with a 286 processor, 640 KB memory, a > > 720 kb diskette drive, and 25-30 MB free space on an AT, > > ESDI, or SCSI hard disk (the latter controlled by an Adaptec > > 1540.) MINIX for the 386 (MINIX-386 for short) can be > > installed on a machine with at least a 386sx processor, 3 MB > > memory and at least 25-30 MB of disk space. > > ... > > > > -andrew > > Right, this is why I asked what type of processor he had. Minix for > i386 wants 3MB - more than he apparently has...unless 1.9 was a type or > I misunderstood. Thanks for the tip, though. Although I have questions > about the utility of Minix on a 286 with 640KB RAM, I will nevertheless > take a look a it to see what can be done with such a system. I doesn't read the install.txt carefully, and didn't noticed the 3MB memory requirements, but on the official minix homepage, (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html) the required ram for the 32bit version only 2MB, not 3MB - and 1.9 is near 2 :-)) -andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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