Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:30:59 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU Message-ID: <200105031331.JAA00559@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010503114842.00bac7f0@gid.co.uk> from Bob Bishop at "May 3, 2001 11:51:04 am"
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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 Is there a way to install without sysinstall. In netbsd I can drop into a shell and run fdisk, swapctl, and then disklabel to get the disk set up with partitions and swap space to take some of the load off of the small memory. If I compiled a small kernel on my workstation using only the components in the laptop and getting rid of everything but the bare essentials I believe I could but this small kernel on a floppy and maybe do it that way(there was a thread on this in questions referring to an article at FreeBSDDiary, I'll have to check it out). Of course all of this depends on whether I can install sans sysinstall. Has anyone done an install without it? This would be like doing FreeBSD from scratch(sounds like a good learning experience). Ian As told by, Bob Bishop > Hi, > > At 13:57 03/05/01 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >[...] Your best bet is to get an old version (for example > >2.2.8, the last FreeBSD-2 version). This should function in 4 MB, but > >don't expect a ball of fire. > > I think that's correct, but IIRC 2.2.8 sysinstall needs more (5MB? 8MB?) > > -- > Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 > rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -- 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
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