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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!gumby!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu!news From: pauls@icecreambar.css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Feedback: How low can 386bsd go? Date: 6 Dec 1992 21:19:10 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1ftqoeINNqqq@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <scsBVB8w165w@mertwig.UUCP> Reply-To: pauls@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu Daniel Drucker writes | alaroy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew LaRoy) writes: | | > 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. | | I have the EXACT same params. 386dx, 25, 90 megs, 2 meg ram. | Email to me too if you answer this. Well you can't accommodate much by way of source in a small partition, you can pretty easily install the binary distribution plus a big chunk of the etc distribution in a 40Mb partition. The problem is that you have to do a little bit of work to install just what you want and none of the extraneous stuff, like the games and all that. You guys should go score a copy of the FAQ from wuarchive.wustl.edu (among other places) in mirrors4/386bsd/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/386bsd.FAQ and it will answer a lot of these questions. Paul