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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,tw.bbs.comp.386bsd
Subject: Re: The optimize equipment for a mail server
Date: 30 Apr 1996 06:53:31 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) writes:

>>This has been fixed again, there's now a second installation floppy
>>for 4 MB systems (as a compromise, better a second floppy than not
>>being able to install at all).

>Interesting.  I've got a pile of 386's with 4mb memory that could be used
>as, essentially, dumb terminals.  In other words, they don't do anything
>but provide me with a network connection, and a few virtual consoles.

It's the ``floppies/boot4.flp'' file on all newer SNAPs.  Note that
you can even get one of the recent SNAPs on CD-ROM by Walnut Creek
(they made an experiment to see how much demand there is for such a
thing).

You can also temporarily put another 4 MB into the box(es), install,
and rebuild a custom kernel.

If you are adventurous and are suffering from a machine with a full
CVS tree and way too much disk space (:-), you can also roll your own
stripped-down distribution floppy. ;-)

-- 
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. ;-)