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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us... Date: 23 Sep 1992 13:16:09 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19pqmpINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <19oe23INNqh0@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep23.043825.13248@serval.net.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1992Sep23.043825.13248@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes: > I really want to try 386bsd on my 386sx-16 with 4MB RAM. I was wondering if > I could install 386bsd kernel source and compiler on a 14MB partition on my > HD. That is all I can afford for now. I did the same for Linux and was very > impressed by it. I want to see what 386bsd looks like on my PC. Does anyone > have experiences with this configuration? I don't think your RAM is the limiting factor, but the HD space available - there's eleven 5.25'' floppies of *compressed* stuff and I doubt very much this'll fit on 14 megs. BTW I have seen 386bsd + X11R5 (sp ?) with kernel sources up and running on a 16 MHz 8Mb RAM 80-Meg HD and ET-3000 based VGA -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV