On 2002-05-20 13:29, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:54:59PM -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> > I recently acquired a 50 Mhz 486-DX2 laptop, ... 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?
>
> NetBSD should run on it, but more RAM wouldn't hurt of course.
> I'm not sure it'll be useable with X, however ...

NetBSD should run fine on less than 200 MB.  I used my recently
downloaded copy of i386cd.iso of 1.5.2 to install on a spare partition
I have, and here's the disk usage:

hades# mount -o ro /dev/ad0s2a /mnt
hades# df /mnt
Filesystem  1K-blocks   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s2a    891217 130397 716260    15%    /mnt
hades# umount /mnt

The machine I installed this time has more than 4 MB of memory, but
I've run NetBSD 1.5.2 with as little as 8 MB without any problems at
all.  Try it out and see what happens :)

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