Re: Small HDD

[email protected] wrote:
> 
> I bought a Powerbook 180c. Is there any possible way to install OpenBSD on
> its 155MB HDD? I guess I can mount /usr via NFS, correct?

Oh?  What were you going to use for network interface?

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> Or is this going to be impossible with 155MB? Should I look for a 300MB HDD?

Personally, I think 300MB is still way too small.  BUT it all depends
on what you plan on doing with it.

Keep in mind, in addition to the OpenBSD partition, you will need a
MacOS boot partition (doesn't NEED to be big, but <2M is painful.  I
usually wimp out and do 40M, but that's on a 4G drive) and a swap
partition, probably a minimum of 20M (and probably not an unreasonable
maximum for a machine which tops out at 14M).

The network is going to be the killer, though (er..after the
performance, the memory, etc.).  I can't think of any supported way to
bring Ethernet to the Powerbook 180c.  Usual technique that I recall
was SCSI Ethernet adapters, don't see any evidence they are supported
by OpenBSD.

Nick.
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