On Thu, 23 May 2002, Martin Weber wrote:

> > Nice :) Mine is a 386sx 16mhz with 105mb of hard disk (I got linux slack 3.4
> > on it fine). Though, I have an old 520 disk laying around that I may place
> > into it (hope it works...)
>
> Better do that, you'll need massive swap for a usable machine w/ 4 MB ram,
> and that means you have only about 70 mb left for the base system, which is,
> when you want to install some more tools, about too less :>
>
	Be careful - adding swap requires wired memory to manage it. If
	you add a massive amount of swap to a very low memory machine you
	can easily make it completely unusuable :)

> No plip on netbsd (go search for a pr which brought plip on nbsd _1.3_ !!,
> it said there is no interest in PLIP and thus the pr got closed w/o merging into nbsd),
> I was quite disappointed to see that, but luckily I had pcmcia :) You better
> have a serial cable around, or you'll do what I started with (bought the pcmcia
> ne after my third install): floppy installs :))) They _ROCK_ :>
>
	I believe someone if working on porting the FreeBSD ppbus code
	across. (I'm actually in the process of shipping them a sparc
	classic clone so they can enjoy confirming they have it working
	cross platform :). Hopefully we'll hear more from them soon...

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