From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 1 13:32:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA27777 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:32:22 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA27765 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:32:06 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA02974; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:30:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199510012030.NAA02974@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Brian Tao cc: Terry Lambert , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 1995 16:24:15 EDT." Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 13:30:57 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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??? Win95 has loadable device drivers. We don't. >-- >Brian Tao >System Administrator, Internex Online Inc. >"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================