From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 00:22:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08363 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08356 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA25425; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA23499; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:21:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA08659; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:20:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602030820.JAA08659@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: printer server To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 09:20:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: didier@omnix.fr.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602022213.XAA24413@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Feb 2, 96 11:13:54 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)