Help! I need a small(old ?) FreeBSD release
Alex de Kruijff
freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Mon Sep 8 08:51:19 PDT 2003
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:26:49AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old computer (AMD DX2486 @80MHz and 16MB RAM) and I want to install FreeBSD on an empty 53 MB partition. I couldn't find an old release small enough to fit. Can you help? The smallest all purpose release I could find is release 2.2.8 but it's still not small enough.
>
You could try picobsd. Its based on FreeBSD but so small you can place
it on a floppy. There are versions you can download or you could create
your own version.
http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html
--
Alex
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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