On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Dan and Jill Caugherty wrote:

> -- Is it possible to put a working NetBSD installation on a Zip disk?

yes.  you can get netbsd *working* in about 40 Mb, less if you don't want
man pages (read: you know what you're doing inside out, have no users less
knowledgable, and only want the base distribution)

>    Would it be worth it?

depends on your intentions.  if you don't want to run X11, you can get a
decent system operable on a zip, even with 16Mb of swap.  But you'll not
have a lot of room for file storage, compliling, or additions.

You could prolly even fit X on it, if you have no swap partition.
i'll be able to let you know soon enough, as i just allocated my 20Mb
external to swap so that i could try.

now if you're thinking of supporting several users with quota for
workspace and mail, you may have a problem.

--
Jim