Steve,
	I have a Zenith 425L laptop with a 160mb hdd and 3.7mb usable RAM. I was 
able to get 1.5.2 installed without too much trouble. After the partitions 
were created, I had to exit the installer and enable the swap. You may need 
to do the same. I used the Tiny-Install and have since trimmed the kernel 
down to about 860k. 
	I also have a 755Cs ThinkPad. It has 7.7mb usable ram and a 160mb hdd. IBM's 
diagnostic utility gives it a clean bill of health. I can't get anything, 
linux distros included, to install on this machine except win3.11 and most 
3.11 software won't install either. I suspect the reason for this is a very 
old BIOS, maybe the one it was shipped with. IBM's flash utility will not 
execute unless the machine is plugged in and the battery is fully charged. My 
battery is junk and I gave up on the project after far too many hours of 
trying. I've read where others have successfully installed NetBSD on the 755 
and other old ThinkPads. What worked for those folks did not work for me. 
Good luck, Todd 







On Monday 01 April 2002 02:51 pm, Stephen R. Ceasar wrote:

> So I guess my question is what version of NetBSD would I be best server
> with and where might I find it.
>
> If I'm barking up the wrong list please just let me know (any additional
> direction is appreciated).
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bleichert [mailto:syborg@stny.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: Stephen R. Ceasar
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 340
>
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Stephen R. Ceasar wrote:
> > So I got an old IBM Thinkpad 340...
> > 125 MB HD & 4 Megs of RAM
> >
> > According to what I've read, the last version I can install and
> > successfully run is 2.1.7. If necessary with an upgrade from 2.0.5
> >
> > 1. Am I correct?
> >
> > 2. Where can I find such old versions? The FTP site only seems to hold
> > versions back to 3.5.1.
> >
> >
> > any other input is appreciated.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > steve
>
> Just FYI, we tried an earlier version of FreeBSD on a 4 MB laptop and
> ended up going with NetBSD. YMMV.
>
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