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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:40:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Matthew  Campbell <matthewc@arya.solgate.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with 4 megs of RAM
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Matthew  Campbell wrote:

> My PC currently has only 4 megabytes of RAM (actually, it has 640K of 
> base memory and 3 MB of extended memory), and I want to install FreeBSD 
> 2.1.  I have determined that the boot disk tries to load the root file 
> system into a RAM disk, and it's my guess that a lot of memory would be 
> saved if I simply mount a floppy root disk.  Is it possible to do this?  

Huh?

There is a 4mb boot floppy, called 'boot4.flp' that you should use.

Then I'd go buy some memory, since it's dirt cheap :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major