From owner-freebsd-small Wed May 2 21:23: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC6B37B424 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 21:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust170.tnt2.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.90.170]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA08808 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 21:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA01174 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:22:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105030422.AAA01174@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 00:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Operating System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an old IBM thinkpad with about 4MB of RAM(actually it says 3096KB on bootup) with a 486 CPU that I would like to use with PicoBSD. It has two serial ports and a monitor port with a floppy drive and a HardDrive with about 120 MB. Unfortunately there is no PCMCIA slots for a NIC. I have come close to getting NetBSD on this laptop but have failed right at the end. I figured that I should try a BSD that is made for small spaces. The FAQ suggests 8MB but claims 4MB has been done. I figure if I can get a swap space on their early in the install I should be set because the HD is plenty big enough. I have had a version of Linux(small linux I think) on this laptop and it worked, but I would rather have a BSD(I'm more comfortable with it). I this even possible or should I go and find another 4MB of RAM(this thing maxes out at 8MB and the RAM is very hard to find)? Ian -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message