From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 13:25:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA27290 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:25:23 -0700 Received: from trepan.io.org (taob@trepan.io.org [198.133.36.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA27269 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:25:03 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by trepan.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA01055; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:24:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 16:24:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Terry Lambert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-Reply-To: <199510012013.NAA20269@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"