From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 11 11:28:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08522 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:28:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sliphost37.uni-trier.de (root@sliphost37.uni-trier.de [136.199.240.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08517 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:28:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from blank@localhost) by sliphost37.uni-trier.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02334; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:20:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Blank Message-Id: <199706111820.UAA02334@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> Subject: Re: Very-small-footprint FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970610152612.00733dc8@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jun 10, 97 03:26:12 pm" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:20:37 +0200 (CEST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: blank@fox.uni-trier.de (Sascha Blank) X-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Brett, Brett Glass has written recently: > I have here an old HP Omnibook 300. This wonderful machine has an 8-hour > battery life, due to its monochrome non-backlit display, 386SX processor, > and 10 MB PCMCIA flash disk card. It has 2 MB of RAM, upgradable to 4 MB. > > Is it possible to create a tiny version of FreeBSD for this machine? It'd > be wonderful to have an ultra-portable, long-lived UNIX machine. Question 2.4 from the FreeBSD FAQ says that you must have at least 5 MByte to install FreeBSD 2.2.x and at least 4 MByte to run it. But I think even if you upgrade your machine to 4 MB, it is still not enough to be able to do some reasonable work with it. -- Sascha Blank - mailto:blank@fox.uni-trier.de Student and System Administrator at the University of Trier, Germany Finger my account to receive my Public PGP key I don't speak for my employers, they don't pay me enough for that.