From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 7:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from anarcat.dyndns.org (phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.20.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81EE14D2C; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@anarcat.dyndns.org) Received: by anarcat.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1579D1BE2; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:39:36 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14461.61878.761130.281219@anarcat.dyndns.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:39:34 -0500 (EST) To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: melange@yip.org (Bob K), msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, boing@boing.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] DOS-in-ROM (was Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels) References: <200001130128.SAA03644@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Same here.. :)) I tried to run it as an X terminal, but the libs filled up the drive.. :)) The worst part is that I needed PicoBSD to install FreeBSD, as the install floppies/kernel were too big... --- Big Brother told Chad R. Larson to write, at 18:28 of January 12: > As I recall, Bob K wrote: > > Just as an aside, I spent all day today using an 80286 laptop with > > DOS-in-ROM (running TeleMate off a floppy). Now this has got me wondering > > if PicoBSD would run on that thing... > > Don't think so. The FreeBSD kernel needs 80386 hardware registers > and memory management at the minimum. > > On the other hand, I bought (flea market, $25) a Compaq 386/20 > laptop with an 80Mb hard drive and 4Mb of RAM. It boots and runs > FreeBSD. > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir Lofofora To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message