Re: Installing under 512 MB of storage

On 2026 May 31 (Sun) at 16:12:25 +0200 (+0200), Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
:On Sun May 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM CEST, Stuart Henderson wrote:
:> On 2026-05-30, Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote:
:> > 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..
:
:These are small thin clients which have been donated from a bank to the local
:hacklab I partecipate in, and us buying a bunch of adapters and storage
:drives is less ideal than having stuff break.
:
:My idea with them is to organize a workshop showing off what one can achieve
:with OpenBSD base and really poor hardware, ending with giving the PCs away
:to people who participate.
:
:Individuals can then add more storage space if they want to, and it's
:definitely gonna be my recommendation.
:
:If this was for a long term home lab your suggestion would be of course
:sensible. For something like this, I guess this botch is acceptable?
:

This feels like you are going to give all of the new users a very bad
time :(.  You really do need to solve the storage issue, because it's
going to be a real problem.

-peter