I have seen a few messages in the mail archives about putting pico.bsd on
small hardrives to implement a gateway. Also if you have another small hd
lying around maybe even a 40mb you could then use the 200 just for /usr
You don't have to worry about the bios limit as long as you keep the
root low. I have used a number of 386 and 486 boards with large
hard drives.
I believe you could optionally install 2.2.8. It takes less space.
Jim
A little knowledge is a DANGEROUS thing
James W. Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Laurence Berland wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on an old 486 I've got lying around to
> use as a NATing firewall for my home network, but I've only got a 200
> Meg HD around. I'm gonna go get another HD later, but right now I'd
> like to get running with just that. So far I've been trying with 16 to
> swap and various other combinations, but it always seems to run out of
> /usr space. I figure / should be at least 32MB, and the rest (~152MB)
> goes to /usr. I'm trying to install the binaries, the docs, and the
> kernel source (but not the rest of the source). Any idea if it's even
> possible? Should I shrink down the root partition more? I've done
> loads of installs at this point, but all on HDs with at least a gig for
> FreeBSD. Any ideas where I can get a bigger HD that's still under the
> limit for old BIOSen? Thanks in advance for any help.
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