From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 13:37:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ekk.net (207-103-71-248-cpadsl.voicenet.com [207.103.71.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B08A37C5FB for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag@dag.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ekk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765953096A for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:37:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ed Kern X-Sender: dag@207-103-71-248-cpadsl.voicenet.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 In-Reply-To: <200007130742.e6D7gjL42679@fedde.littleton.co.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Chris Fedde wrote: > I'm interested to see that you are attempting to install FreeBSD on such > old hardware. I have a few motherboards like that laying around and have > concidered using them as say dedicated home automation controlers. I've got an old 486DX/33 running 4.0-STABLE with a 2 GB drive and 40 megs of ram. It's used primarily as a shell server for pine and irc, and it also hosts a few small web sites and an ftp site. It's amazing what you can do with some old hardware and FreeBSD. I started with 16 megs, but it was paging out quite a bit. I picked up some cheap, used 4 MB 30-pin SIMMS on eBay, and now it's happier. `make buildworld` takes about two days, though.. Ed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message