Subject: Re: How little memory can I get away with?
To: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@acm.jhu.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/20/2002 13:29:48
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:54:59PM -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> I recently acquired a 50 Mhz 486-DX2 laptop, currently running Windows 3.1.
> I was planning on installing NetBSD on it (because there is no way a modern
> Linux distro can work on something this small), but have since realized
> that it only has 340 megs of disk, and 4 megs of memory. Can even NetBSD
> install and run on something this small? Or should I crack that puppy open
> and see if I can squish more memory in?

NetBSD should run on it, but more RAM wouldn't hurt of course.
I'm not sure it'll be useable with X, however ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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