Subject: Re: Which NetBSD for 4MB Ram Notebook..170MB HD?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/29/2005 10:38:00
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:13:20AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> >On IRC they told me that I even can get current to run on this machine
> >with absolute small installation, it should fit on 100MB. Can anybody
> >confirm that?
>
> Yes, but it may be missing important files you need.
That's not true. An extracted base.tgz + etc.tgz takes around 64Mb of
diskspace, and gives you a fully functional NetBSD system. Only without
compilers, games, manpages, ... But it's functional.
The problem will be RAM. 4Mb is not enough. You'll need 8 or maybe even
16.
GH