Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:28:56 -0500 From: "Amy Shaftoe" <amyshaftoe@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Perhaps a new "distribution"? Message-ID: <F136RoYfr0QYSfRNeH50000a374@hotmail.com>
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> > would love to be able to use BSD on. I need a bit of user > > data space, so I > > think a striped down distro (small enough to fit on, let say, > > 50-100MB) but with full funcionality would be great for me. > >Well the only thing I would wish for at the moment is one or two >additional distribution choices in the FreeBSD installer. "Minimal" >takes up about 80 MB at the moment, but includes things you may not need >on a truly minimal system (like e.g. compilers). It would be cool if a >more detailed choice could be made during installation, say up to a >granularity where you can decide whether or not you want Perl, or gcc, >or sendmail, etc. That would render my guide almost obsolete, however. I just wish I could install the current FreeBSD distribution on a machine with only 8 MB of memory. I think 4.3 was the last release where that was possible. I tried to build custom boot floppies for 4.5 with most of the ethernet drivers removed. While I got a little further in the boot process with these floppies, it still failed. Has anyone had any success in doing this? On some machines I have (old laptops) adding more RAM isn't an option and removing the hard drive to do the install somewhere else is a pain. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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