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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