From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 13 00:06:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA03649 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:06:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@libya-213.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03644 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA27266; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:07:44 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:07:43 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Jesse D. Walters" cc: Andrey Chapurin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD for i286 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Jesse D. Walters wrote: > The 286 is a 16 bit processor, which will not run with most 32-bit based > unix workstation, you might want to check out mini-linux, that runs from > dos. you can check it out at www.linux.org or www.ssc.com. [...] > > Which version of FreeBSD can be run on : > > 286-12MHz, 1MbRAM, 40Mb HDD, MonoEGA > > Or may be another unix-compatible OS. > > I cannot find anything during last 2 years. There's always the (8 bit version of?) minix, which btw will run on an original IBM pc, but you'd be much better with some sort of 386. Even if you had a 386sx upgrade in there you'd need much more than 1mb ram and 40mb hdd space. - alex