From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 11:54:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC4B37B419 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2KJsQC67705; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:54:26 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:54:26 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Roger534@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will this work? Message-ID: <20020321075426.A67303@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Roger534@aol.com on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:51:35PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:51:35PM -0500, Roger534@aol.com wrote: > I recently came across a boxed copy of FreeBSD 4.2 on the "clearance table" > at a local office supply store. My old PC is a 90MHz Pentium with 24 MB RAM > and a 503 MB hard drive. I bought the box (it was only $17) - would > converting my old PC to a UNIX-only machine as a hobby be a practical idea? Yup. The machine spec is enough to run FreeBSD. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Power corrupts, Absolute Power is pretty neat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message