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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hotb.RoBIN.de!flinx.RoBIN.de!alvman.RoBIN.de!ah 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 Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2t5goq$6s@alvman.RoBIN.de> References: <2t1t3q$9ks@serra.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: alvman.robin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- Andreas Haakh \ ah@alvman.RoBIN.de In den Wingerten 21 \ +49 6150 7287 64291 Darmstadt Wixhausen \_________________________________________