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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:20:32 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        didier@omnix.fr.org
Subject:   Re: printer server
Message-ID:  <199602030820.JAA08659@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602022213.XAA24413@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Feb 2, 96 11:13:54 pm

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As Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 
> It seems that didier@omnix.fr.org said:
> > I would like to transform a old 386dx40 into a printer server.
> > I only have 4mb of memory on this computer. is it possible to install
> > and older version of FreeBSD ? which one ?
> 
> You can install a 2.0.5 and upgrade it later (if necessary) to 2.1.0 with 4
> MB. You'd better compile a kernel for it on another machine though :-)

I've installed a private 2.2-SNAP yesterday on such a machine.  Thanks
to PHK's ``boot4'' floppy image, it went flawlessly, even though this
is one of the 3700KB-only machines, i.e. the ISA hole cannot be
remapped.

The machine runs comparably well, i can even launch an X server on it.
It's wd disk is a bit flakey, but that's hardware.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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