Re: Installing under 512 MB of storage

Or you can get a decent disk for $1 each or nothing,
and make them regular useful OpenBSD machines,
as opposed to headaches waiting to happen.


On Jun 01 10:21:00, [email protected] wrote:
> Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> I don't think running new software on such old machines is viable in
> practice.
> 
> If I needed to use 20 PCs with tight storage I would build up a budget
> storage server and mount all non boot-critical filesystems over NFS. You can
> have a "/" fylesystem taking less than 200 MB and then offload /var, /usr
> etc to the server.
> 
> The downside is once the machine is removed from your lab it is useless.
> 
>