From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 18:33:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBEB14FED for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA73511; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:05:00 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199908110135.LAA73511@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC In-Reply-To: <37B06A03.79AB5E93@corecomm.net> from Johnny Trivedi at "Aug 10, 1999 01:05:55 pm" To: Johnny Trivedi Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:05:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been trying to step in to some sort of *nix environment but am > not too sure that I want to try it on my current PC. I do, however, > have another PC. It is a 486 with 25 MHz, only 4 MB of ram, 170 Mb Hard > disk. The only question I have is that will a FULL version of FreeBSD > run on my PC. I don't want to learn some version that is outdated. > What other resources can I turn to for questions. I have already > checked out some reading material on amazon.com but before I purchase > anything I want to know if the OS will work on my PC. FreeBSD runs on 4mb of ram but needs at least 5mb to install. Also, your hard disk is only big enough for a quite minimal installation, so if by FULL you mean most of the install packages and X then it simply won't all fit. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message