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Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU
In-Reply-To: <200105030422.AAA01174@scarlet.my.domain> from User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas at "May 3, 1 00:22:54 am"
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:16:49 -0700 (MST)
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As I recall, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I have an old IBM thinkpad with about 4MB of RAM(actually it says
> 3096KB on bootup) with a 486 CPU that I would like to use with
> PicoBSD.  It has two serial ports and a monitor port with a floppy
> drive and a HardDrive with about 120 MB.  Unfortunately there is no
> PCMCIA slots for a NIC.

Does it have a parallel port?  You can run PLIP with a laplink cable
to another, larger system to do the setup.

A long time ago I got FreeBSD 2.0.5 onto a Compaq 386/20 notebook
that had an 80meg drive and 4meg of RAM using PLIP to a desktop
machine that had the installation CDs in it.

It can be done...

	-crl
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