[rescue] OS for low memory machine

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jul 5 21:07:24 CDT 2001


Yeah, but where are you going to find disks that look as good?

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Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:33:20PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> > 
> > OpenBSD + ftp install?  All you'd need (assuming the SS2 has a floppy
> > drive) is a way to download and copy over the boot image to a floppy disk.
> 
> the only way i could get my SS2 to boot NetBSD for the first time to install
> was from floppy.  it just completely blew up with trying a netboot or from
> booting off of tape, so i'd HIGHLY recommend a floppy boot (or maybe a CD-ROM
> or helper disk boot, but i didn't try either of those)
> 
> -brian
> 
> ps: this NetApp F330 is sexy.  now all i need are some disks.  hmmmmmmm.
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