Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:01:18 -0500 (CDT) From: ratbert <dono@async.org> To: Ben Hutchinson <benhutch@xfiles.org.uk> Cc: SHINOBI <shinobi@direct-internet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: query Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981018155929.5275B-100000@azazel.async.org> In-Reply-To: <19981018155810.E20530@xfiles.org.uk>
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Ben Hutchinson wrote: What about Minix? Or one of the "Mini-Linux" distributions? AFAIK, *BSD*, Linux, Solaris, etc, won't run on 286. Like Ben says, give it away to charity, or maybe even sell it for $5. Good luck. >You won't get either Linux or FreeBSD on it. > >I'd give it to charity if I were you! > >- Ben > >On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 10:28:38AM -0400, SHINOBI wrote: > >> Hi, I'm would like to install UNIX or LINUX on this really old machine I >> have lying around. It's a *really* old 286 Olivetti laptop and I >> believe it's currently running on DOS. Can you tell me if BSD UNIX will >> run on it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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