Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:00:02 +0100 (CET) From: Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Older versions Message-ID: <20030107235705.E83991@slave.east.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030107225444.GB7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <courier.3E1B4711.00004753@softhome.net> <20030107225444.GB7989@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, lattera@softhome.net wrote: > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! > > > > lattera > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > What type of processor does it have? 1.9MB of RAM is not very much. > Even PicoBSD, the single floppy version of FreeBSD, would like to have > 8MB of memory. I have serious doubts that you will be able to get > virtually anything to run in 1.9MB of memory. I could be wrong, and if > someone knows of a tiny OS that will run under these conditions I'd be > curious to know about it. I have recently been looking around at some > tiny Linux installations, but even those absolutely require at least 4MB > of memory. minix? from the minix install.txt: ... 1. REQUIREMENTS The minimum system MINIX can be installed on comfortably is an IBM PC/AT or PS/2 with a 286 processor, 640 KB memory, a 720 kb diskette drive, and 25-30 MB free space on an AT, ESDI, or SCSI hard disk (the latter controlled by an Adaptec 1540.) MINIX for the 386 (MINIX-386 for short) can be installed on a machine with at least a 386sx processor, 3 MB memory and at least 25-30 MB of disk space. ... -andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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