Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:52:09 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel <HUMMDN36@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ftp/webserver on 386 w/4m? Message-ID: <01IH48LDDBP29FN5ME@BUFFALOSTATE.EDU>
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Hi all,
With the exception of the excerpt below I found few encouraging words with
regard to attempting to install FreeBSD on a 386sx 4M ram 70m hard drive. My
resources are very limited as far as hardware, but this old piece of junk has a
good internet connection through university. I do not intend to use this system
to compile anything, and I can even edit offline. There will never be more than
one user logged on at once. I'm think I'm pretty clear on how to build a bare
bones
From: "Lenzi, Sergio" <lenzi@bsi.com.br>
FreeBSD on a floppy???
Once I did it
Supose you have a floppy with a ufs filesystem on it..
disklabel -r -w /dev/rfd0 fd1440
newfs -t2 -u 18 /dev/rfd0
tunefs -m 0 /dev/rfd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/sbin /mnt/dev /mnt/etc
1) install the sources (the /usr/src directory)
2) use the crunchgen command (man crunchgen) to build an
executable with everything you need inside like: ifconfig, route,
netstat, pppd, sh, cp, cat, find, cpio...
Name it binaries and install it on a /bin in the floppy using gzip
gzip < binaries > /mnt/bin/binaries.
3) make the /dev directory on the floppy (cd floppy, sh /dev/MAKEDEV all).
4) build a small kernel with gzip binaries, pppd slip. and install it on
the floppy.
5) create links for the binaries (ln -s binary cp; ln -s binary sh....)
6) copy the /sbin/init to the /mnt/sbin
7) create a etc/rc in the floppy... This is the startup file the system
will use.
Once booted, the system will execute the /etc/rc file...
There you can setup anything you want using the commands in the /bin
Hope this will help....
Sergio Lenzi.
Unix consult
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