From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 7:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CC237B684 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0UFpHh17295; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:51:17 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010130162217.S62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:51:10 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Edwin Groothuis Subject: Re: FreeBSD with 4 MB RAM Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Jan-01 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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 :-) > Really 100M? Wow! I remember not fitting it on such a small disk. Must have been remembering wrong. How much swap do you have? > -- > 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message