From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 04:01:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA29194 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:01:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA29184 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 04:01:13 -0800 (PST) From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Received: from atusks01.aut.alcatel.at by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA04391 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:00:58 +0100 Received: from atuhc16 by atusks01.aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main) id AA08834; Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:00:42 +0100 Message-Id: <9602211200.AA08834@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> Received: by atuhc16 (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA01687; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:00:40 +0100 Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:00:40 MET Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Chuck Robey" at Feb 20, 96 5:51 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 Jaykork@aol.com wrote: > > Hi there, I have a DEC 286 VaxMate computer, is there any way that I can run > > FreeBSD unix on it? If not, can you suggest a flavor of UNIX that will run on > > the 286? > You won't run FreeBSD on it, or any modern Unix, because the 286 has no > hardware memory manger in it. You can run Minix, which is a kinda > "simulation" of unix ... depending on your purposes, it might be enough. > You get Minix from your local bookstore, Tanenbaum wrote it as a teaching > tool. Since version 1.7.1, Minix is free for downloading at http://www.cs.vu.nl/ftp/minix/ If you have a 286 with funny disk controller or with less than 2 MB RAM, ask me about installation instructions--it is nontrivial. (For the record, I have it "running" on an Olivetty M-201 luggable with 20 MB proprietary Conner IDE prototype and 640 KB RAM. It actually works :) /Alby > > > > thanks alot! > > > > Jason "thekork" Korkin > > > > e-mail: thekork@xtdl.com > > WWW: http://www.xtdl.com/~thekork > > > >