From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 7:22:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C038B37B491 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:22:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 17347249; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:22:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:22:17 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with 4 MB RAM Message-ID: <20010130162217.S62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> References: <20010130132311.A27857@ns.sicfa.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mj@isy.liu.se on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:07:18PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:07:18PM +0100, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 30-Jan-01 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i've got an old laptop here, a 486 SX 25 with 4 MB RAM and 80 MB HD. Is there > > an (old) version of FreeBSD that would fit on it ? (I've tried PicoBSD, but > > it's based on FreeBSD 3.4 and it requires 8 MB RAM). > > > > Since I have neither CD-ROM drive nor internet connection on the laptop, is > > there a way to install it with floppies ? > > > > Oh, dear, oh, dear:) 486/25 and an SX too.... > > You can install 2.2.2 (and possibly other 2.2) into your 486 with 4M ram. I have > read that 5 megs is necessary for the install, nevertheless have I successfully > installed it on a 4meg box. 80M hd is a problem though! The 'smallest config > possible' option during install requires around 110-120 Megs. I have gotten it > into a 117 Meg drive but not anything smaller (and I do not remember how much > smaller I tried with). Minimum install takes about 60Mb for 2.2.6. And be carefull with the parrallel cable install, in the sysinstall for 2.2.6 (2.2.8?) ifconfig for lp0 wasn't working well, you had to do it in the emergency holographic shell. Edwin, 486SX/50 8Mb 100Mb disk :-) -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message