Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:59:59 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> To: "John2002" <jfreeman51@hotmail.com> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old Computer Message-ID: <20020211095959.M29269@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <OE56tPGtPrPrvCWO6hm00001cea@hotmail.com> References: <OE56tPGtPrPrvCWO6hm00001cea@hotmail.com>
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> 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 You'll need more ram. FreeBSD will run in 8 megs, but unless you feel like getting into the nitty gritty, the installer won't run. Needs at least 12 megs for the installer to run properly. The hard drive might feel cramped, but so long as you don't make a large swap partition, you should be fine. I don't think you'll be able to run XFree on there (I know GNOME and KDE won't run, but maybe just plain X will), and you definitely will not be using the ports tree for installation (but that's why there's packages). This will make a good little console box though. Or a decent firewall or mail server, or a web server for playing on (8 megs is *way* too little for a full-blown web server though). IOW, up the RAM and have fun. :) My next project is to get my little 486-66 w/32MB RAM and 8 gig HD to take over as firewall/mail server. :) Cheers, Freddie Cash fcash@bigfoot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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