From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 16:58:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17025 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:58:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uchicago.edu (root@haven.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17015 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from quads.uchicago.edu (root@quads.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.63]) by haven.uchicago.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) with ESMTP id SAA11133 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:53:32 -0600 Received: from quads.uchicago.edu (spfarrel@localhost.uchicago.edu [127.0.0.1]) by quads.uchicago.edu (8.7.1/8.7.2) with ESMTP id SAA15508 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:57:45 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199602020057.SAA15508@quads.uchicago.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: new freebsder -> tiny disk, etc etc... Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:57:44 CST From: "steve farrell " Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk i'm a new freebsder but not a new unixer. i have an old sparc i'm using now, but don't want to pay for a fast sbus serial card, so i'm tyring to run freebsd on an old 386 w/high speed serial port. i've got 4mb ram, amd 386-40, and a 40mb st-251 in the would-be freebsd box. my plan is put the root filesystem on the 40 (20mb parition, 20 mb swap), and get the rest through nfs. i have the sparc botting some sun3's via nfs so i'm fairly confident about getting that end working. first problem is - how do i tell the install program i only want to install the root stuff on the disk, and get /usr via nfs? second problem is - i don't know if my ehternet card is working? should it respond to a ping when the kernel is loaded (boot.flp)? anyway, i'm still trying to track this one down in dos... another thought i had was to use netboot.com, and do eveyrthing via nfs. i actually am prety fond of this idea, since i wouldn't have to listen to that old noisy disk -- but i have no idea where to get netboot.com, which i assume to be a dos program....