From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 11:38:38 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 BF05E37B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-121.maa.sify.net [210.214.66.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED17243E4A for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) Received: (from shantanu@localhost) by dhumketu.homeunix.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h09BONJQ000988; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:54:23 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org) X-Authentication-Warning: dhumketu.homeunix.net: shantanu set sender to shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org using -f Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:54:23 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Older versions Message-ID: <20030109112423.GA959@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nathan Kinkade , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Hmmm... I dunno X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +++ Nathan Kinkade [freebsd] [07-01-03 14:54 -0800]: | - --ZfOjI3PrQbgiZnxM | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii | Content-Disposition: inline | Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable |=20 | 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=3D20 | > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks!=3D20 | >=3D20 | > lattera | >=3D20 | > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message |=20 | 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. |=20 | Nathan |=20 maybe any version of DOS? Regards, Shantanu --=20 Everyone is a genius. It's just that some people are too stupid to realize it.=20 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+HVvn8NTC7RN6/Z4RAgVbAJ4sIH20Cw+5TE8r1hpvYsP29TELMACg9tTq LvEvFwlDxn9PY8EknaS2zaQ= =CWo2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message