Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:20:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Blank <blank@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very-small-footprint FreeBSD Message-ID: <199706111820.UAA02334@sliphost37.uni-trier.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970610152612.00733dc8@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Jun 10, 97 03:26:12 pm"
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Hello Brett,
Brett Glass has written recently:
> I have here an old HP Omnibook 300. This wonderful machine has an 8-hour
> battery life, due to its monochrome non-backlit display, 386SX processor,
> and 10 MB PCMCIA flash disk card. It has 2 MB of RAM, upgradable to 4 MB.
>
> Is it possible to create a tiny version of FreeBSD for this machine? It'd
> be wonderful to have an ultra-portable, long-lived UNIX machine.
Question 2.4 from the FreeBSD FAQ says that you must have at least 5
MByte to install FreeBSD 2.2.x and at least 4 MByte to run it. But I
think even if you upgrade your machine to 4 MB, it is still not enough
to be able to do some reasonable work with it.
--
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