On 2026-05-30, Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been trying to install OpenBSD on a bunch of old i386 machines that > all have 512 MB (!) of storage, but encountered some issues. > > Reading <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning>, I see that > it should be possible to do so.
That should probably be changed/dropped, you can probably just about get a minimal stripped-down system running with custom install files, but at that point it's not really OpenBSD. > Similarly, The "OpenBSD System > Requirements and Supported Devices" section of INSTALL.i386 says that > "The minimal configuration to install the system is 32MB of RAM and at > least 250MB of disk space to accommodate the `base' set". That is definitely outdated. > How can I actually install the operating system in such a small > environment? Should I just make my own base79.tgz file, stripping out > the included toolchain, giving up kernel reordering? That's what you would need to do. I don't know if it's really useful to do so though.
