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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.dra.com!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:05:29 +0000 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <32A04D39.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> References: <57oa8i$nbs@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit bob prohaska wrote: > First of all, is FreeBSD known to work on AMD > 386sx systems with 4 megs of RAM? I have a 386sx with 3Mb that works OK - but I attached the drive to one of my other systems to get it installed, and also used one of my other systems to build it a suitable kernel (IIRC, the generic kernel would boot, but left insufficient RAM to run /etc/rc and so enable swapping). Just for amusement, I then tried getting this machine to compile its own kernel - which it did eventually complete successfully, but it took more than 2 days!