On May 30 13:46:36, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
How old? PATA or SATA disks? dmesg? You can get large old disks for peanuts. IMHO much easier than trying to cram it in. > Reading <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning>, I see that it > should be possible to do so. 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". > > Unfortunately though, installing the base set fails due to exhausted > storage. Indeed, INSTALL.i386 also says that it is "260.4 MB gzipped, 526.5 > MB uncompressed", probably due to it also including a "minimal" toolchain > for relinking the kernel. > > 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? > > Curious to know! Bye :) > >
