From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 08:52:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEBF16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:52:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6C2C43D41 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:52:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 12457 invoked by uid 0); 28 Dec 2004 08:52:43 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2004 08:52:43 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.alphaque.com [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBS8e2pZ002667; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:40:03 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <41D11BE2.6010207@alphaque.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:40:02 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com> <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20041227210812.GK19771@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Dan Thomas cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Minimal system installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:52:48 -0000 On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following: > On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: > >>A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It >>only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend >>and would you send me the link to download it. > > > It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine like that (in fact, I intend > to start doing so on a very similar machine today), but only as a > diskless workstation. FreeBSD needs a disk *somewhere*. If this is > all you have, you can't run FreeBSD on it. but you should be able to run PicoBSD on it. ;) -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+