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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!ak.netlink.co.nz!auckland.ac.nz!news.hn.netlink.co.nz!kcbbs!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.stealth.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!unlisys!blackbush.xlink.net!pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!forthdv.pfm-mainz.de!stephan From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth) Subject: Report: FreeBSD on 386SX20 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Lines: 42 Organization: Forth EDV Beratung+Schulung Message-ID: <E8n4MA.HMJ@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:27:46 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39100 Hi, just for those who like that: Today I installed FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 on an old IBM Laptop L40SX. This system has 6MB RAM, 120MB Disk, 386SX20 CPU. First I made the floppies needed for the installation on another FreeBSD System. The installation itself was very slow (no CoProcessor!). Took about 2h to install: bin, doc, manpages, src (ssmail.cfg), but went on without any problems. (BTW couldn't manage to get Linux installed on that system :-)) The system is needed as an uucp/mail connection for a co-worker who needs to stay in touch with the office. UUCP, sendmail and pine are running fine, formating man pages with man <page> takes ages...(but finally works). Building ckermit from source took another 40 minutes. apsfilter failed to get installed. I haven't figured out why by now. Just to see if it works I installed the following packages: tcsh, recode, mtools, ghostscript, lynx, pine, popclient, psutils and a2ps. Everything works like I expected it to do. I used one partition for / only and gave it 16MB as SWAP. df shows 30M free after all. Overall a nice cheap solution. Future plans are setting up ppp to connect to the office. Regards, Stephan -- FORTH EDV Beratung + Schulung stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de Martin-Luther-Str. 55 voice: +49 6131 581072 55131 Mainz, Germany fax: +49 6131 581073