From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 6:50:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E6837B403 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 06:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.20.22] ([12.76.84.121]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020510135017.DLS28245.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@[192.168.20.22]>; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:50:17 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:50:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Small install From: Steve Fettig To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" 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 On 5/9/2002 22:58, "Jacob Sheehy" wrote: > Hello, > > I just recieved an old laptop with Windows 3.1 installed. It's a > 386, with only a floppy drive and about 200MB on the hard drive. > I'd like to kill Windows and install FreeBSD (just the basics; no > applications, no X window system, etc). And it needs to be installed > though floppies. > > Where can I download a version of FreeBSD that's just the basics? > Can FreeBSD be installed by a couple of floppy disks? > > Thank you, > > Jacob You might want to look at pico-bsd. I have not looked at this for quite some time, but I am sure it is small enough to run on your machine and should have the capabilities you need for such a system. Here's the link: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/ Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message