Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:23:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: riedlipa@engr.orst.edu (Pat Riedlinger) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old Versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199512090223.TAA00934@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512090022.QAA14186@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> from "Pat Riedlinger" at Dec 8, 95 05:24:54 pm
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> 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.
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