Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Matthew Campbell <matthewc@arya.solgate.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with 4 megs of RAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805204010.220M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960805115757.24622A-100000@arya.solgate.com>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Matthew Campbell wrote: > My PC currently has only 4 megabytes of RAM (actually, it has 640K of > base memory and 3 MB of extended memory), and I want to install FreeBSD > 2.1. I have determined that the boot disk tries to load the root file > system into a RAM disk, and it's my guess that a lot of memory would be > saved if I simply mount a floppy root disk. Is it possible to do this? Huh? There is a 4mb boot floppy, called 'boot4.flp' that you should use. Then I'd go buy some memory, since it's dirt cheap :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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