From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 11 9:46:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from umx-mail02.missouri.edu (umx-mail02.missouri.edu [128.206.10.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBA437B402 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by umx-mail02 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <1T8XYV5N>; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:46:14 -0600 Message-ID: <1E68BBF368521A498EA50DEDB61120900E1AC38E@tiger-mail02.mizzou.edu> From: "Jewell, Curtis Shields (UMC-Student)" To: 'John2002 ' , "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG '" Subject: RE: Old Computer Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:44:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Assuming it's at least a 386 - I see no problem in running a basic setup of FreeBSD WITHOUT upgrading it! I wouldn't run X or some of the larger ports if my life depended on it on that machine - but that's certainly enough for a command-line. --Curtis -----Original Message----- From: John2002 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: 2/11/2002 9:30 AM Subject: Old Computer Howdy! I bought off of Ebay and old Compaq 524 "all in one" computer, ( 8meg ram, 450meg hd, with no O/S ). Think I could up grade this thing and install FreeBSD? Thanks Dan White http://www.geocities.com/ufoengines/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message