Minimal system installation

[Dinesh Nair]

On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following:
> On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote:
> 
>>A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram.  It
>>only has a floppy drive.  What version of FreeBSD do you recommend
>>and would you send me the link to download it.
> 
> 
> It's possible to run FreeBSD on a machine like that (in fact, I intend
> to start doing so on a very similar machine today), but only as a
> diskless workstation.  FreeBSD needs a disk *somewhere*.  If this is
> all you have, you can't run FreeBSD on it.

but you should be able to run PicoBSD on it. ;)

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