Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 18:57:44 CST From: "steve farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu>" <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: new freebsder -> tiny disk, etc etc... Message-ID: <199602020057.SAA15508@quads.uchicago.edu>
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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....
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