On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Chameleon wrote:

> this is a pretty bad question... but i'll ask it anyway...
> i have a 386 sx laptop with 3 megs or ram on it...
> and i want to install a BSD on it...
> does anyone know if an older version of netbsd will work on it??


NetBSD 1.2.1 ran on my Gateway 80386sx w/4MB RAM. But, it was very slow.
To compile kernels for it, I actually used to pull the drive out of the
machine, put the drive into a system with a Pentium chip, build there, and
then put the disk back in the old machine. An ugly hack to be sure, but it
saved me lots of time had I tried to compile on the old machine.

I no longer have the machine, version 1.2.1 wasn't too speedy on it and I
took it to a recycling center last fall.

Brian

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