On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:33:11 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >Experienced users usually have no problem figuring out what they >need to run their applications. > >Also keep in mind, the goal is most likely not "running OpenBSD", >the goal is probably some task which runs on top OpenBSD. 24M is >plenty to sit at a shell prompt, but I doubt that's your goal.
Hehe. I did a favour for a client and took his son's Thinkpad 240 (nice and small, dead battery, PCMCIA CD drive etc) I forget how much RAM but not very. Can't install from a CD because of catch 22 - CD unbootable until an OS is installed 8-) OBSD boots nicely from external floppy, connnects via PCMCIA NIC to my install server, installs happily. All I want it for is to run cu to talk to Soekris boxes in the field so I can even leave out the external FDD but it's then i find out that the RS232 port is dead. At that point I am glad that OBSD is so easy to install that the effort was not great and sad that I didn't forsee that something that old and so battered would likely have problems. Ahhh well, another paperweight like most of the machines mentioned in threads like this. It just makes me feel as old as these war stories... ~|^ == R/ (Offlist replies to the supplied reply-to: or discover tarpitting ;-} ) Rod/ _____ Depressed? Me? Don't make me laugh! :Spike Milligan:1918-2002:
