From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 18: 3: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twwells.com (mail.twwells.com [64.38.247.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E9937B405 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xfermail (helo=mail.twwells.com) by mail.twwells.com with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15oaRD-000FYD-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 18:03:03 -0700 X-Filter-Status: mail.twwells.com ok 23 Received: from twwells.com ( [65.14.140.228] ) by mail.twwells.com via tcp with esmtp id 3bba63b0-00e97d; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:02:40 +0000 Received: from root by twwells.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15oaQn-000120-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:02:37 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Existencial questions Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:36:57 -0400 References: <3BBA4F98.8EE8150A@globetrotter.qc.ca> From: admin@twwells.com Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm wondering the smartest way to install FreeBSD on my 386, to be able You can run FreeBSD on that system. You cannot install it using the standard tools. To install, temporarily move the hard disk to another machine which has more memory and do the install there. You will also want to build a custom kernel, one with the absolute minimum in it, all this done on the other box. Once all that is done, you can move the hard disk back to your 386. It'll probably run very slowly no matter what you do. A 386SX isn't terribly fast and you'll be swapping any time you try to do much of anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message