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From: marenda@newshost.koblenz.fh-rpl.de (Juergen Marenda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 4 Mb ram + 77 Mb hd
Date: 17 Mar 1994 10:52:15 +0100
Organization: Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz Abteilung Koblenz
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References: <NAWAZ921.94Mar16164934@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu>
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In article <NAWAZ921.94Mar16164934@brownlee.cs.uidaho.edu> nawaz921@uidaho.edu writes:
>I will soon get a pc at work with the above params. I don't intend to run
>X, and I'd *hate* to run linsux on it. can I run *BSD on it? do I have the
>space for the minimal dist + kernel + 4 (min!) Mb swap? 

I tried NetBSD-0.9 on my 386/16MHz with 2 MByte RAM and an real old
30 MByte MFM Disk and it worked !
(not very fast and funny, but it runs!)

Juergen.
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