Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:24:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951001162009.19034W-100000@trepan.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199510012013.NAA20269@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > and You-Know-How in the alternative UNIX-like OS segment.
^^^ ("Who", of course)
> I run Win95 on a 4M machine. It isn't the fastest thing in the world,
> but it runs just fine.
Great... FreeBSD will be known as the OS-that's-more-bloated-than-
the-King-of-Bloat-MS-Windows. Not to slam on the kernel developers,
but there must be *some* way of being able to *install* the OS on a
4-meg machine???
> Best bet would be blow the CDROM drivers from generic for the net
> distribution, and NFS and other net parts as necessary from the CDROM.
If 2.1 fits in 5 megs, doing away with this stuff might push it
back under 4 megs. I'd rather have potential users make a choice of
which boot floppy to take (like Linux) than losing them completely
because they can't even install it to begin with...
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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