From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 15:13:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A3037B419 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0016.cvx10-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.178.182.16]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JjiB-000631-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:20 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:19 -0800 Subject: Re: question about bsd From: Wes Baehr To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20011226215857.92AC137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 12/26/01 2:00 PM, "Doug Reynolds" wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:56:16 -0600, Murphy, Derrick wrote: > >> I have an OLD 486 25Mhz monocrome screen toshiba laptop with 4 MB of ram and >> a floppy drive. The hd is 200Mb What kind of unix could i install on >> this? Im guessing it would have to be a pretty old version to work with so >> little. If anyone knows of any free unix versions that would work with >> this, please let me know ^_^ Thanks > > picobsd. > > you need like 12mbs of ram for freebsd Not true, I run freebsd 4.3-RELEASE on a 33mhz 486 with 8MB of RAM. Although the performance is worse than a lagging 28.8 dialup user, it still 'works'. (I gave the box the name 'latency' for its slowness :P) > > --- > doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net > > PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -iwes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message