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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.6 on 386sx25 laptop 4MB /120 MB HDD Date: 27 Dec 1996 18:00:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5a12s6$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961219232642.14179C-100000@enet1> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33190 Justin England <jengland@enetis.net> wrote: > I have an old Compaq Contura 386 sx laptop with 4MB ram, and a 120 meg > HD. First, I am looking for some hints on if this will be worth it or > not, partition scheme to fit the bin and doc distribution nicely on the > 120 MB HD, etc... Stuff everything into a single (/) filesystem to avoid additional loss. Give it at least 12 or 15 MB of swap however. I'm also still using a 386/16 notebook with 5 MB of RAM. > Second, I have tried to set it up twice, doing an ftp install over PPP. > Once I get to the point where it starts the virtual terminal to create > the PPP connection to my desktop machine, I try ALT-F3, but nothing is > there. When I check the second VTTY, it says that ppp was killed due to > lack of swap space. You should use the ``boot4.flp'' image, did you? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)