Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:46:01 -0500 From: Thomas Simpson <toms@chirock.com> To: Mark Busby <redtick@sbcglobal.net> Cc: help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 486 Install?? Message-ID: <482E2AC9.5070507@chirock.com> In-Reply-To: <704507.287.qm@web81204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <704507.287.qm@web81204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Thanks to all who sent me messages. I think I see where to go, should I need to turn to a FreeBSD. Tom Simpson Mark Busby wrote: > Could you do the job with a stripped down system? Like freenas, > monowall, nanobsd or tinybsd. All based on the bsd system, and with a > little work you can add all the needed ports. Boot from the cd-rom, > save config to floppy or usb thumb drive, use all the harddrive for > storage. > I've been looking into this. If I could just find a boot loader that > would give a usb thumb drive boot as an option. > > */Thomas F Simpson Jr <toms@chirock.com>/* wrote: > > I have a 486 DEEP GREEN system I would like to put some version of > FreeBSD on (I have my reasons). > > I have other inquiries out on this, but if I correctly recall (and > that is a real rusty recall at best), the max memory you could get > on one of these beasts was 48MB, unless they made some bigger, > recognizable, 72-pin modules. > > I have 8 MB of hard drive space free for a FreeBSD partition and I > am actually running an Intel P24T Overdrive for my CPU. All work > fine on the DOS 6.2.2 partition I need to run. > > Would any version of FreeBSD work with just 48MB of RAM? Or do I > need to figure out a way to get more RAM on the board, IF POSSIBLE? > > Thanks. > > Tom Simpson > Omaha, NE > toms@chirock.com > 402.896.1157 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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