Re: OpenBSD usefulness as laptop workstation

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

I just pulled out an older 486 that had 2.5 on it.
I put the boot floppy in to get it to run 3.3.

It's got 8MB of RAM (and two empty slots, but dig
for scrap RAM).  It failed.

I put the disk into a bigger machine, installed and
moved the disk.

With GENERIC, it sucked (4MB free).  With a kernel
with no USB, SCSI, PCI or most network things, no
IPv6 or crpypto, I now have 6.7MB free.

It runs.  It swaps a lot, but it runs.  Into
a closet for it until I find more RAM.

2MB?  Good luck getting a kernel and a running shell.

Karlbridge might work for you though...

Quoting 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.