Oh come on .. there's no challenge in 16M. Less, that's where it gets really interesting (if you're in to BSDM, of course ;)
OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 10 11:55:18 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.40 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,DS-CPL,CX16 real mem = 16281600 (15MB) avail mem = 5730304 (5MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 04/10/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd880, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xe0010 (45 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version "6.00" date 04/10/2007 bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: battery life expectancy 99% apm0: AC on, battery charge high acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd880/0x780 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000! 0xe0000/0x4000! vmt0 at mainbus0 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 piixpcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x08 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive> wd0: 64-sector PIO, LBA, 1024MB, 2097152 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets, initiator 7 cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR10, 1.00> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08: SMBus disabled vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware Virtual SVGA II" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) bha3 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "BusLogic MultiMaster" rev 0x01: irq 11, BusLogic 9xxC SCSI bha3: model BT-958, firmware 5.07B bha3: sync, parity scsibus1 at bha3: 8 targets, initiator 7 ppb1 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VMware Virtual PCI-PCI" rev 0x02 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 vic0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "AMD 79c970 PCnet-PCI" rev 0x10: irq 9, address 00:0c:29:ff:4d:0d eap0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0 "Ensoniq AudioPCI97" rev 0x02: irq 10 ac97: codec id 0x43525913 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev 3) audio0 at eap0 midi0 at eap0: <AudioPCI MIDI UART> isa0 at piixpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi1 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask e965 netmask eb65 ttymask fbff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b (i'll admit that this one was installed with 256M .. but it's a GENERIC kernel and it boots with the default daemons and gettys etc, including ntpd). Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd PS: BSDM = BSD Masochism On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:22:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: | Peter N. M. Hansteen escreveu: | > Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | >> So, OpenBSD will run. It's going to be slow, it's only a Pentium | >> 100. I ran OpenBSD on a P133 for a while, I had to run the older | >> version of X because the video wasn't supported by the new version, | >> not sure if that's still the case. | >> | > | > The archives will reveal that around 2.5-2.7 times (cant't remember | > exactly), some of us have installed and (briefly) run OpenBSD on | > i386/33 with all of 8MB of RAM, and I think even the trick for making | > the installer complete under these conditions made it into the FAQ at | > least for a while. Not recommended, but apparently doable, FSVO. | > | > | >> Patience will be important. | >> | > | > Oh yes, loads of it. By the time you've actually gotten a system with | > that spec to do something marginally useful, something much more | > recent is bound to have fallen into your lap for free. | > | > | Never ran with 24MB, but note mentioned that I've run an openbsd | firewall on a pentium 133, with 32MB of ram. It had everything a | firewall for home uses need, DNS, DHCP and the firewall rules. I've | upgraded to 64MB so i could run a squid proxy, apache server and openvpn | server. Ran it for more than a year. OpenBSD is a very small footprint | operational system. 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