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Installing FreeBSD on PC with 12Mb of RAM

Sergey Lukin edited this page Jan 10, 2015 · 2 revisions

Just for reference, there are following OSes that should be working on 12mb of RAM: http://kolibrios.org, http://menuetos.net/, http://www.minix3.org/

All handbooks can be found here: http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ Old releases of FreeBSD can be downloaded here: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/

Writing .flp files to floppy disks can be done from Windows using fdimage.exe that can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/

For example, in order to write image kern.flp to Floppy Drive A, execute following:

fdimage floppies\kern.flp A: