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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:57:02 +0100
From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@sicfa.org>
To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject: freebsd on a small laptop
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Hello,

This mail is slightly OT on this list. But I hope your experience in setting
FreeBSD in small systems will help me.

I have an old laptop, a 486 SX 25 with 80 MB of hard drive and 4 MB RAM. I'd
like to install FreeBSD on it, only to be able to take notes using vi :)
The lack of RAM seems to be a problem : FreeBSD 4 of course doesn't work, and
FreeBSD 3 neither. So I'd like to install FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE on it (I was told
it would work).

I've download the 2.2-STABLE sources using CVSUP.

1/ What's the best way to get 2.2-STABLE installed on the laptop ? I'd like to
install it using TCP/IP over parallel, since I have neither NIC nor CDROM drive
in it.

2/ How can I build the installation floppies ?

3/ When the installation floppies will be built, what must I do to build an
"installable" version on my fbsd 4 box ? Can I make buildworld on my fbsd 4 box
without breaking everything on it ?

Any help would be very strongly appreciated :)

Lucas
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