On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:59:14PM -0700, L wrote:
But later when I get a clue and admit reality, I'll throw it on a
pentium 600mhz box with 500MB of ram.
Well, when you get a clue and don't want the laptops anymore, be sure to
advertise them here. One with 32 MB ram would do me just fine
Hello from Alberta (waving to Theo, Bob, and others),
This email was meant to be short, but it is long. I apologize. Sigh.
I have a few dumb 100MHZ to 133MHZ AMD 486/586 portable computers with
PCMCIA cards and 8MB-56MB of RAM that I'm absolutely determined to turn
into OpenBSD servers this
On Dec 1, 2007, at 4:10 PM, L wrote:
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yaifo.fs or pxe boot if the NICs in question support it. The docs for
that are in the FAQ. I rather doubt your NICs do, the readme that
you'll get when you grab the source explain how to do just what you
want.
http://erdelynet.com/?s=yaifo
If you can't neboot the best way of getting it going is using the hdd in
one chassis for install and then move it to the desired machine
afterwards. This is way easier in openbsd than in linux.
8mb won't work for openbsd without trickery that you want to get near.
I believe these days 24 is
L wrote:
Well I have installed Linux successfully before for these devices using
a trick:
I took the hard drive out, put it into a computer that *does* have a
cdrom or floppy.. install linux on it. When done installing, transport
That should work fine, as long as the two machines see the
Marco Peereboom wrote:
If you can't neboot the best way of getting it going is using the hdd in
one chassis for install and then move it to the desired machine
afterwards. This is way easier in openbsd than in linux.
This is what I will do right now on a 16MB machine just for the
L wrote:
Marco Peereboom wrote:
If you can't neboot the best way of getting it going is using the hdd in
one chassis for install and then move it to the desired machine
afterwards. This is way easier in openbsd than in linux.
This is what I will do right now on a 16MB machine just for
Nick Holland wrote:
If you can't neboot the best way of getting it going is using the hdd in
one chassis for install and then move it to the desired machine
afterwards. This is way easier in openbsd than in linux.
This is what I will do right now on a 16MB machine just for the
I wrote:
Has anyone made a cute ncurses style installer for openbsd, BTW? I
don't need one personally.. the script did its job well. But it might
make OpenBSD more popular if some cute newbieish TUI (text user
interface) installer was available.
Replying to myself..
RTFA (read the effing
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