From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 11: 3:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aag.alaskaair.com (aag.alaskaair.com [159.49.254.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CD381513C for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elazich@AlaskaAir.com) Received: from worldtalk.alaskaair.com by aag.alaskaair.com via smtpd (for hub.freebsd.org [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 16 Dec 1999 19:07:42 UT Received: from 159.49.42.21 by worldtalk.alaskaair.com with SMTP ( WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v4.3); Thu, 16 Dec 99 11:04:43 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: cdced086-966c-11d3-b153-00c0f02de454 From: elazich@AlaskaAir.com To: swen@wavefire.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:54:31 -0800 Subject: Re: BSD for a 386 laptop w/ 3 megs ram Message-ID: References: <3.0.32.19991216094558.01370530@mail.wavefire.com> Organization: Alaska Airlines MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gateway: NASTA Gate 2.0 for FirstClass(R) X-WSS-ID: 1447E841502347-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe one of the 1.x or 2.x releases but I'd bet that you'll run into problems actually getting it to recognize hardware on that box. I have copies of every FBSD since 1.0 and even its predecessor NetBSD and remember those times as not very much fun when it came to laptops. As I recall, you needed 4 megs to get it installed in the first place, what's the possibility of adding memory? Eli swen@wavefire.com writes: >Hi all... >i'm totally happy with FreeBSD on my 486's... but i just aquired a 386 >laptop with an 80meg HD and 3 megs of ram... >I've tried installing PicoBSD and it didn't have enough ram to do it... >short of turning it into a terminal station, is there a BSD out there >that >i can throw on here... i'm sure it would work a lot nicer that the win >3.11 >thats on it now... >Thanks >Swen >************************************************************** >* procrastination is like masterbation, * >* it feels good until you realize you've fucked yourself * >************************************************************** >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message