From owner-freebsd-small Sat May 5 6:28:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from kauha.saunalahti.fi (kauha.saunalahti.fi [195.197.53.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5943A37B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 06:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jml@cubical.fi) Received: from gw.cubical.fi (gw.cubical.fi [195.218.69.227]) by kauha.saunalahti.fi (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f45DSLP05918 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 16:28:21 +0300 (EEST) Received: from cubical.fi (dhcp-45.intra.net [192.168.42.45]) by gw.cubical.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA71583 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 16:28:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from jml@cubical.fi) Message-ID: <3AF4003D.DEEF5D76@cubical.fi> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 16:29:33 +0300 From: Juha-Matti Liukkonen Organization: Cubical Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, 4M is definitely doable, at least with a custom system build (can't say of Pico because I haven't used the recent versions). Our 4.2-RELEASE based ebsd rescue build, however, happily gives four virtual consoles with less than 3M committed RAM, using a ramdisk root. (It did take a bit of tinkering, though...) Cheers, - Juha Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 3 May 2001 at 0:22:54 -0400, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > Operating System: FreeBSD > > > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > > > 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. I have come > > > close to getting NetBSD on this laptop but have failed right at the end. I > > > figured that I should try a BSD that is made for small spaces. The FAQ > > > suggests 8MB but claims 4MB has been done. I figure if I can get a swap > > The claim is based on my personal tests of the stock 2.2.5 ROUTER version > - still available from the PicoBSD antiquated web pages... : -- Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Cubical Solutions Ltd Phone: +358(0)405280142 Email: jml@cubical.fi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message