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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:46:13 +0200
From:      Juha-Matti Liukkonen <jml@cubical.fi>
To:        Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@sicfa.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd on a small laptop
Message-ID:  <3A8EE315.5DBE1B16@cubical.fi>
References:  <20010217105702.A2194@ns.sicfa.org>

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Hi,

if you just want to run vi, check out the picobsd release build. You can
fit a lot of stuff -- even 4.x based -- on a single 1.44M floppy. Vi
most definitely qualifies, I've built floppies with dhcp and lynx on
them making an old 386 into a working text-only web surfboard, among
other things.

Cheers,
	- Juha

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This mail is slightly OT on this list. But I hope your experience in setting
> FreeBSD in small systems will help me.
> 
> I have an old laptop, a 486 SX 25 with 80 MB of hard drive and 4 MB RAM. I'd
> like to install FreeBSD on it, only to be able to take notes using vi :)
> The lack of RAM seems to be a problem : FreeBSD 4 of course doesn't work, and
> FreeBSD 3 neither. So I'd like to install FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE on it (I was told
> it would work).
> 
> I've download the 2.2-STABLE sources using CVSUP.
> 
> 1/ What's the best way to get 2.2-STABLE installed on the laptop ? I'd like to
> install it using TCP/IP over parallel, since I have neither NIC nor CDROM drive
> in it.
> 
> 2/ How can I build the installation floppies ?
> 
> 3/ When the installation floppies will be built, what must I do to build an
> "installable" version on my fbsd 4 box ? Can I make buildworld on my fbsd 4 box
> without breaking everything on it ?
> 
> Any help would be very strongly appreciated :)
> 
> Lucas
> --
> Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
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