From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 18:25:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA15092 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 18:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15087 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 18:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA00934; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:23:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512090223.TAA00934@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Old Versions of FreeBSD To: riedlipa@engr.orst.edu (Pat Riedlinger) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:23:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512090022.QAA14186@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> from "Pat Riedlinger" at Dec 8, 95 05:24:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Thanks for your time. I am wanting to try out freebsd on a 33Mhz 386DX w/ > an EISA bus. My problem is that at this time, I only have 2 meg ram (the > stuff is proprietory). Is there a early version of freebsd that will run > on as little as 2 meg? I would like to try it out before investing in the > (expensive) proprietory ram that I need for freebsd 2.1 You can build an extremely stripped kernel and hand install it. The install disks as distributed require 5M. An extremely stripped kernel *can* run in 2M, though the current boot code might not allow it to work. You will need a system with more memory to build the disks. Before we forced loading at 1M, I booted a stripped down (and stripped) kernel with all unnecessary drivers removed and no networking in an ALR 386 with 1M. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.