Re: OpenBSD usefulness as laptop workstation

[Teemu Schaabl <teemu_(_at_)_lynix_(_dot_)_net>]

hi,

At 11:24 25.04.2003, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> Jd <jd_(_at_)_jackdan_(_dot_)_net> wrote:
> > Eumh, all this talk about using a laptop as a firewall made me get my
> > old laptop out of the closet.  My question is, is 16mb of ram enough
> > for
> > a firewall?  Of course i woudln't run X on the machine...it would only
> > serve as a firewall.
>
> That's a FAQ Jack. Get your flame suit ready...
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SmallRAM
>
> FWIW I'm running a 3.2 firewall on i386 with 48Mb no problem.

is there any chance to get openbsd running on a machine with less than
4 MB Ram - i got a toshiba T2000SXe - it has 2 MB? I won´t use it
as a firewall, but it would be neat to have it running as Console.

tia,
regards
teemu