From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 7 15:32:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4643F37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:32:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from east.ath.cx (catv-50622a7a.nyircatv.broadband.hu [80.98.42.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E4243ED1 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:32:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witch@kronos.HomeUnix.com) X-Complaints-To: abuse@kronos.homeunix.com X-SMTP-Authenticated: CRAM-MD5 X-Message-Flag: Ditch the crappy mail client and get a real one! Received: from slave.kronos.homeunix.com (4k91x85urhpnzsab@slave.kronos.homeunix.com [10.1.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07NWiRI049064 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:32:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) Received: from slave.east.ath.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slave.kronos.homeunix.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h07NWh1O021584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:32:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from witch@slave.east.ath.cx) X-Authentication-Warning: slave.east.ath.cx: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be slave.east.ath.cx Received: (from witch@localhost) by slave.east.ath.cx (8.12.7/8.12.6/Submit) id h07NWcUO021541; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:32:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:32:38 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett Reply-To: Andrew Prewett To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Older versions In-Reply-To: <20030107231612.GC7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> Message-ID: <20030108002211.N14132@slave.east.ath.cx> References: <20030107225444.GB7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <20030107235705.E83991@slave.east.ath.cx> <20030107231612.GC7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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