On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun May 31, 2026 at 4:52 PM CEST, Peter Hessler wrote: > > This feels like you are going to give all of the new users a very bad > > time :(. You really do need to solve the storage issue, because it's > > going to be a real problem. > > We don't really have the funds to buy storage + adapters for everyone, > but everyone will hopefully have the funds to buy them for themselves, > as a precondition for participation. > > Maybe this is a better solution. Thanks for being more sensible than > me :) > An older release of OpenBSD i386 would more comfortably fit these systems although they would be unsupported and would lack all the latest security fixes and improvements; e.g. OpenBSD 6.1/i386 would comfortably fit a machine with 64MB RAM and a 256MB disk. There used to be mirrors with older versions but I don't know if any of them remain. You may need to resort to CD images from archive.org. I am all for finding new life for old systems, but I wouldn't put any of them on the Internet if you do choose to run an old release. If the systems have enough RAM, you may be able to run a supported release if you use the internal storage for root and /var only (perhaps also swap if needed), mounting everything else from an NFS server. That might work well enough as a starting point although there will be little point in giving machines away to participants if they don't have NFS servers at home to mount from. Be warned, it may have been so long since anyone needed to do this that it no longer works. -ken
