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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:11:59 +1100 (EST)
From: Richard Lyon <rlyon@rlyon.mynet.au>
To: "steve farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu>" <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: new freebsder -> tiny disk, etc etc...
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, steve farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> 
> i'm a new freebsder but not a new unixer.  i have an old sparc i'm
> using now, but don't want to pay for a fast sbus serial card, so i'm
> tyring to run freebsd on an old 386 w/high speed serial port.  i've
> got 4mb ram, amd 386-40, and a 40mb st-251 in the would-be freebsd

I think you need more than 4MB ram to install FBSD 2.1 .

Regards ...