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In-Reply-To: <002001c0e2bb$e9e9cfb0$0300a8c0@oracle> from Doug Young at "May 22, 2001 10:37:04 pm"
To: dougy@brizzie.org (Doug Young)
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	I have a 486 Laptop with less just less than 4MB.  I have gotten Small
Linux to run on it and almost got NetBSD 1.4 to install.(I'm sure I could
finish this if I had more time).  Try PicoBSD.  I have seen that one of their
options installs in 4MB.

Ian

As told by, Doug Young
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> 
> > Not too long ago, I installed 4.2-R on a 486-25 laptop with 12MB RAM
> > and a 200MB disk. It was relatively straightforward, though I
> suspect
> > that it would take significantly more work to install on a system
> with
> > less memory or disk than that.
> >
> 
> Would you care to try a 386 laptop with 4Mb or less  :)
> 
> 
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