Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 16:29:33 +0300 From: Juha-Matti Liukkonen <jml@cubical.fi> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Laptop 4MB RAM 486 CPU Message-ID: <3AF4003D.DEEF5D76@cubical.fi> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0105051511310.86812-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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Hi, 4M is definitely doable, at least with a custom system build (can't say of Pico because I haven't used the recent versions). Our 4.2-RELEASE based ebsd rescue build, however, happily gives four virtual consoles with less than 3M committed RAM, using a ramdisk root. (It did take a bit of tinkering, though...) Cheers, - Juha Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 3 May 2001 at 0:22:54 -0400, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > Operating System: FreeBSD > > > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > > > I have an old IBM thinkpad with about 4MB of RAM(actually it says 3096KB > > > on bootup) with a 486 CPU that I would like to use with PicoBSD. It has two > > > serial ports and a monitor port with a floppy drive and a HardDrive with > > > about 120 MB. Unfortunately there is no PCMCIA slots for a NIC. I have come > > > close to getting NetBSD on this laptop but have failed right at the end. I > > > figured that I should try a BSD that is made for small spaces. The FAQ > > > suggests 8MB but claims 4MB has been done. I figure if I can get a swap > > The claim is based on my personal tests of the stock 2.2.5 ROUTER version > - still available from the PicoBSD antiquated web pages... : -- Juha-Matti Liukkonen, Cubical Solutions Ltd Phone: +358(0)405280142 Email: jml@cubical.fi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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