Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:01:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd on 386 (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980629105523.23389A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980629150131.266J-100000@broker>
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
> received the following from a picobsd tester here in malaysia. could
> anybody duplicate what colin has done here ? it failed with an out of
> swap error when i tried it on a 486 w/ 4MB.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:40:28 +8000
> From: Colin Charles <colin96@pl.jaring.my>
> To: dinesh@alphaque.com
> Subject: picobsd on 386
>
> i ran succesfully, picobsd with a 386 comes with 4mb ram.
>
> yes, 4mb made a 14.4 connection to the net too.
>
> so, the minimum requirements can be lowered.
Which version was it? 2.2.5 or 3.0 -based? This is significant (and it can
be either way - 3.0 is bigger, but uses some special sysctls to
better handle lack of swap)...
BTW, if anyone has free programming power at hand :-) he could write 2-3
programs that replace netstat and systat - it's now easy in 3.0, using
sysctl, just like 'vm' proggy in PicoBSD does... It's an easy thing
(retrieve the structs and display them with appropriate printfs), so
you can contribute to the project even if you're not so experienced a
programmer...
Andrzej Bialecki
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