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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2000 16:11:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        mi@privatelabs.com
Cc:        Aleksey <caspy@masterhost.ru>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem bootimg [free|pico]bsd at 386sx
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005051610390.46556-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <200005052007.QAA52363@misha.privatelabs.com>

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On Fri, 5 May 2000 mi@privatelabs.com wrote:

> On  5 May, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
> =3D On Fri, 5 May 2000, Aleksey wrote:
> =3D=20
> =3D > Greetings!
> =3D >=20
> =3D > I have a 386sx with 4mb of mem, floppy.
> =3D > trying to boot from freebsd 3.=C8 install floppies and/or picobsd.
> =3D >=20
> =3D=20
> =3D See INSTALL.TXT:
> =3D=20
> =3D FreeBSD requires a 386 or better processor to run (sorry, there is no
> =3D support for '286 processors) and at least 5 megs of RAM to install
> =3D and 4 megs of RAM to run.....
> =3D=20
> =3D Sounds like you are 1 meg short.
>=20
> Should not PicoBSD still work?
>=20
> In any case, I think, it is possible to build a customized version of
> kernel (less drivers, no PCI/EISA) and it may fit... But you'll have
> to build on some other machine.
>=20

In the case of PicoBSD, you will probably have to trim the kernel as much
as possible...

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