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From: "Vasily V. Grechishnikov" <bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru>
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Subject: Very inexpensive installation of FreeBSD ?
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			Hi !
	We need an inexpensive router ( TCP/IP , 3-10 modems , 1-2 Ethers).
And haven't very many money . We assembled 386SX w/ 4MB RAM , 40MB HDD , 
multiport card ... , without keyboard and video . After I try to install 
very nice OS - FreeBSD to that configuration  on other computer . 
	I partioned 40MB HDD by a following ( 32 MB - root , 8 MB - swap ). 
And I trying to install FreeBSD 2.2-BETA on this root device ... 
I simply copying directory hierachy to 32MB / . I'm very tried by this 
process , ( 2 hours ), but I'm create working system with 7MB 
free of 32MB .
	First  way to install FreeBSD on super-mini disk slices is 
addition to Installation menu on boot disks following 
 (Distributions/SuperMini) - only nessesary binaries such as sh, named, 
route , ..., i.e . for the embedded systems and networking . 
	Or second way ( best ) add to the Distributions item following :
SuperCustom for very detailed choice of needed componets .

	Any suggestions ?

Thanks , Vasily .
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