From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 8:59:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.stofanet.dk (mail1.stofanet.dk [212.10.10.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E07E37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12522 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2002 15:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO froekjaer.org) (62.107.84.70) by mail1.stofanet.dk with SMTP; 11 Apr 2002 15:58:59 -0000 Message-ID: <3CB5B2DD.4030401@froekjaer.org> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:59:25 +0200 From: Flemming Froekjaer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011016 X-Accept-Language: en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Pritchard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to install/run on a 4MB machine References: <20020411110513.GA21812@mppsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mike Pritchard wrote: >I recently came into possession of an old 486 laptop with only 4MB >of memory. I would like to install FreeBSD on it. What is the latest >release of FreeBSD will still install and run on 4MB? If needed, I can >build my own install floppies. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks! > >-Mike > I'm preatty sure that 3.4 will run on 4 Megs, but I'm not sure if it needs 5 for the instalation program. I used to have a laptop like that, and I'm not sure that 3.4 is the latest that will work. Does the laptop have a cdrom drive? If it does you can boot from that and fdisk, newfs the disk from there and then use dump/restore to put a working system on it. \Flemming To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message