From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 04:50:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AAA37B401 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 04:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5199443FE5 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 04:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from adsl-67-38-18-210.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net (HELO ameritech.net) (dbailey27@ameritech.net@67.38.18.210 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 May 2003 11:50:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3EBCF53B.4000706@ameritech.net> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:48:59 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Fwd: Re: older versions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:50:04 -0000 > Hi, I'm going to install FreeBSD on a very old system (a 486 > 33Mhz, with 127 mgs HD and 4MB of RAM) and as I've seen in the FAQ, I > need the 2.1.7 version of FreeBSD, I've been looking around in the ftp > site but I only see new versions, can you tell me where to download > the version I need? FYI, if you have a LAN you might want to consider adding on some RAM to this computer's banks, then, generating a boot floppy that requests its root from over the network. This way you can still run an up- to-date FreeBSD. Don >