Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on a low-memory 486
To: Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/03/2000 20:15:15
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Andrei Petrov wrote:

> Seems to me that the real win would be to use floppy based 
> root file system. You'll get your MINIROOTSIZE back as memory.
> That will be slow though.

This machine isn't exactly built for speed. ;-)

Is it an easy thing to do, or does this involve some serious hacking? I'm
not at all familiar with building install images, as generally the
prebuilt ones Just Work(tm).

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