Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 15:01:57 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu (steve farrell) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new freebsder -> tiny disk, etc etc... Message-ID: <199602021401.PAA03529@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199602020057.SAA15508@quads.uchicago.edu> from "steve farrell" at Feb 1, 96 06:57:44 pm
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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
^^^
Add one 1MB more and you will be able to install. You may run
under 4MB but installation only works from 5MB on.
> box.
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> 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.
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> 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?
I suggest (after you solved the above installation hurd) you
install a minimum system (though 20 MB is really tough) with /usr
on / FS.
Afterwards once you are up you may delete /usr. You may also run
with less swap and add (via swapon) swap later to a file on a nfs FS.
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> 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...
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> 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....
netboot.com is in the /sys/src/i386/boot/netboot/netboot.com
It is built with the FreeBSD compiler.
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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