From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 22:26:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF2637B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E687643E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.85] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A346395D01F4; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:25:26 -0500 Message-ID: <013b01c269d4$451d5a50$22ec910c@DaleCoportable> From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: Cc: References: <000001c269d2$eba87690$6400a8c0@windows> Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:26:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Liquid" To: "'Gary W. Swearingen'" ; "'Doug Poland'" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:16 AM Subject: RE: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation Actually I am waiting on an auction to end. For some reason I never thought of looking on ebay, and I hit the jackpot there... 64mb of 30pin simms! Where can I get more info on this picobsd though? >-----Original Message----- >From: Gary W. Swearingen [mailto:swear@attbi.com] >Sent: October 1, 2002 10:31 PM >To: Doug Poland >Cc: liquid@liquidonline.ca; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation > >"Doug Poland" writes: > >> sshd, ipfw, and natd on a RoadRunner cable modem. My only problem >> is the disk is so small I can't do an installworld to keep up with >> -STABLE. > >Consider running picoBSD off a floppy with or without a hard disk >(eg, for log files). It was quite easy/fast to get going and you can >easily keep it as current as the system you build it on (which is >not the systemn you would run it on). > > >I suspect that picoBSD would run on an 8 MB computer, but I don't know. > >I hope the original poster has considered just finding an old computer >with 16 MB; I've bought them for 5 $US from local government surplus. The place to start is $man picobsd NAME picobsd - floppy disk based FreeBSD system SYNOPSIS picobsd [options] [floppy-type [site-name]] DESCRIPTION picobsd is a script which can be used to produce a minimal implementation of FreeBSD (historically called PicoBSD) which typically fits on one floppy disk, or can be downloaded as a single image file from some media such as CDROM, flash memory, or through etherboot. Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message