From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 17:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B9537BA26 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from hacker (hutch-255.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.183]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA06428; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:58:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <011c01bfed2e$86e227b0$b7430ace@hacker> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Ed Kern" , References: Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:57:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Kern" To: Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Chris Fedde wrote: > > > I'm interested to see that you are attempting to install FreeBSD on such > > old hardware. I have a few motherboards like that laying around and have > > concidered using them as say dedicated home automation controlers. > > I've got an old 486DX/33 running 4.0-STABLE with a 2 GB drive and 40 megs > of ram. It's used primarily as a shell server for pine and irc, and it > also hosts a few small web sites and an ftp site. > > It's amazing what you can do with some old hardware and FreeBSD. > > I started with 16 megs, but it was paging out quite a bit. I picked up > some cheap, used 4 MB 30-pin SIMMS on eBay, and now it's happier. > > `make buildworld` takes about two days, though.. > > Ed. > > K....well I win the old hardware award then, cause I have 2.1.5 running on a 386DX33 with coprocessor and 8 whole megs of ram....(worth a king's ransom in its day) A kernel rebuild is a weekend affair. I don't use this box for anything but kicks, but performance is somewhere between terrible and unbearable. (You should see what X does to it!) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message