From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 12:02:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13045 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13030 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id MAA08196; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA03341; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:01:39 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id NAA09934; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:01:38 -0700 Message-ID: <36B8AB22.B4DF8878@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 13:01:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charlie ROOT CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting older versions of FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message