Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:23:47 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimal system installation Message-ID: <41D12623.7070801@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41D11BE2.6010207@alphaque.com> References: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com> <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41D11BE2.6010207@alphaque.com>
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Dinesh Nair wrote: > 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. ;) > I said it before and I'll say it again, FreeBSD 4.x run's fine on systems of this calibre. I have a p100 laptop with 40MB of ram running 4-STABLE and it makes a fine console only workstation.
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