Subject: Re: Suggestions for installing the most recent version of NetBSD on a 486 based laptop
To: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/10/2000 15:34:15
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:21:59AM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> As to the first question: No only NetBSD. As to the second one : I have not
> decided. Also it currently has about 8MB installed, and runs Linux very slowly.

Ha, ok. Well, it's possible that NetBSD performs a bit better on such a
machine. But you should recompile a trimmed-down kernel for this machine,
so save some RAM.
Note that you can also install NetBSD from a ext2fs partition.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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