Re: Installing under 512 MB of storage

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-05-30, Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat May 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM CEST, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>> Should I just make my own base79.tgz file, stripping out the included 
>>> toolchain, giving up kernel reordering?
>>
>> That's what you would need to do. I don't know if it's really useful 
>> to do so though.
>
> I ended up doing this, and it worked. I agree it's not ideal, but it's 
> better than throwing away 20 or so PCs :)
>
> Not sure how it's gonna interact with updates though.

Poorly.

An SSD in an M.2 to IDE adapter would probably be a good and fairly
inexpensive upgrade if they're like to see many updates..
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