From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 18 14:02:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from azazel.async.org (hun-al1-21.ix.netcom.com [205.184.6.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08860 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dono@async.org) Received: from localhost (dono@localhost) by azazel.async.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id QAA05318; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:01:18 -0500 Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:01:18 -0500 (CDT) From: ratbert To: Ben Hutchinson cc: SHINOBI , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: query In-Reply-To: <19981018155810.E20530@xfiles.org.uk> 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 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