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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.