Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:17:20 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Small installation [was Re: out of swap space] Message-ID: <20020126110937.D64614-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <200201261707.g0QH7i868723@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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Chris Fedde wrote to Ryan Thompson: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:45:55 -0600 (CST) Ryan Thompson wrote: > +------------------ > | I'm currently building a router/firewall/proxy for a client, using > | FreeBSD 3.5 on a 486DX/2-66 that they supplied with 3072K + 640K + > | 256K = 3968K RAM, and a 180MB HDD. After getting the kernel ~1MB, > | disabling almost everything on boot (ps -ax | wc = 9 :-), it is soon > | to be serving an entire floor of office machines. So, what is it you > | can't do with several orders of magnitude more memory than that? :-) > +------------------ > > To get a really small configuration take a look at the picobsd stuff > in /usr/src/release/picobsd. With 4.4-stable I was able to get a > 1.2M floppy that booted a fully usable command line router that > included telnetd, natd and tcpdump. Disk space isn't the issue. It's a roomy 180MB. RAM is the issue, and PicoBSD uses mfs to overcome the disk space issue (to fit on a floppy, etc), which would really be quite counterproductive in this case. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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