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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:38:12 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dan Thomas <tommis@direcpc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Minimal system installation (was: What version)
Message-ID:  <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com>
References:  <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com>

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On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote:
> A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram.  It
> only has a floppy drive.  What version of FreeBSD do you recommend
> and would you send me the link to download it.

It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine like that (in fact, I intend
to start doing so on a very similar machine today), but only as a
diskless workstation.  FreeBSD needs a disk *somewhere*.  If this is
all you have, you can't run FreeBSD on it.

Greg
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