Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:40:02 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Minimal system installation Message-ID: <41D11BE2.6010207@alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com> <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following: > 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. but you should be able to run PicoBSD on it. ;) -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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