Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:01:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Charlie ROOT <root@triton.press.southern.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting older versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <36B8AB22.B4DF8878@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9902031426090.1231-100000@triton.press.southern.edu>
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Charlie ROOT wrote:
>
> I have a 486 Toshiba T1910 laptop with 4 megs of ram I would desperately
> like to outfit with an old version of FreeBSD. 2.0.5 would be fine, and I
> could always upgrade, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on your ftp/www
> sites. Please help me out so I don't end up throwing that Toshiba in the
> trash.
Wouldn't you rather just build a much smaller kernel and make your own
boot floppy that will boot 3.0 or 3.1 on 4 megs? I haven't done this,
but I understand it can be done from a src tree, if you make the shrunken
head, er, kernel first.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061
Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com
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