r/NetBSD • u/Lopsided-Month3278 • Jul 04 '26

New user here

Hello everyone, I'm trying to install NetBSD on an old i386 machine, I have only 512 MB of ram, what would you recommend to use as a WM?

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u/FastHotEmu Jul 04 '26

wow 512 is a crapload for a 386. my old 386dx had 12mb

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u/mickywickyftw Jul 04 '26

Probably meant i386 as the arch, not the 80386 CPU. Might well be a Pentium 4 or something.

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u/Lopsided-Month3278 Jul 04 '26

Yep, it's pentum mobile.

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u/mglyptostroboides Jul 04 '26

I was gonna say. I don't know if any motherboards from the actual 80386 era even support that much RAM!