From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 17:27:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA06110 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:27:12 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA06105 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:27:07 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA06206; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:26:20 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510130026.RAA06206@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Altos 386 To: cam@pinnacle.co.nz (Cam Mander-Merrilees) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 17:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510122234.LAA19350@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> from "Cam Mander-Merrilees" at Oct 13, 95 11:34:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1024 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The install floppies files are 1.2MB long exactly so that they can fit on a 1.2MB floppy disk. > > We have an OLD Altos 386 with : > 8 MB RAM > 60MB QIC Streaming Tape drive (ESDI ?) > 1.2 MB 5.25" Floppy disk drive > Ethernet Card what kind? > 370 MB SCSI Hard Drive > > We have FreeBSD 2.0.5 and would like to run this on the above machine. Is > there any way we can install FreeBSD on this machine since it does not have > a 3.5" Floppy drive ?? We have a number of PC's connected on our TCP/IP > network which have 3.5" Floppy drives... We have a number of Unix (different > flavours) on the network also... > > Is this possible ??? I would expect it to work.. the disk will be very tight. you'll only be able to instal a 'minimal system' > > Thanks in advance > Campbell Mander-Merrilees e-mail : cam@pinnacle.co.nz > Analyst / Programmer Voice : +64.9.489.7020 > Pinnacle Software Fax : +64.9.489.7040 > Auckland, NZ > > >