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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!laphroaig!cflatter From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) Subject: Re: Feedback: How low can 386bsd go? Message-ID: <1992Dec2.175327.15972@nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu Organization: NRAO References: <1992Dec2.060416.8279@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 17:53:27 GMT Lines: 20 In article 8279@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, alaroy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew LaRoy) writes: >Sorry if my last attempt made it onto the net. It was posted somewhere >but evidently not here. Why won't post and pico cooperate? > >Anyway, I am wondering if there is any chance of getting 386bsd >running on a 386dx, 25 mhz with a single 89 meg hard drive >and 2 meg ram. I am ccurrenty using about 30 meg of ms-dos stuff >(sorry about sp above - lousy editor) that I would like to keep along >with msdos. I'm thinking of bsd mainly as a learning tool for unix. You should be able to run 386bsd with your setup providing that none of the memory is reserved for shadowed BIOS routines. You will be at the absolute minimum of memory however. I would recommend that you buy some extra memory: 386BSD will run well with 4 Mbytes and a couple of 1 Mbyte SIMMs will be fairly cheap. Chris Flatters cflatter@nrao.edu