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From: ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd on 2Mb ?
Date: 8 Jun 1994 22:29:28 GMT
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NICO (tranquil@cli.di.unipi.it) wrote:
: Can I run 386bsd on a 386 with 2Mb and 40Mb HD ?
: (I don't need many applications, just the OS kernel+bin, C compiler, editor)

Try it, You will not like it :-))

Actually I installed FreeBSD the other day on a friends 386sx-16 with 2MB.
That poor little machine is busy swapping all the time. It takes 'minutes'
to start vi :-(

So better get some more Megs (at least to a total of 4) and try it then.

BTW: Linux didn't like that machine. Not enough memory :))

Andreas
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