From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 13:16:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peridot.cisco.com (peridot.cisco.com [171.69.198.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7EC14BFA for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ankumar@cisco.com) Received: (from ankumar@localhost) by peridot.cisco.com (8.8.8-Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) id MAA15143 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Anand Kumar Message-Id: <199909031929.MAA15143@peridot.cisco.com> Subject: Newbie installation question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Gurus, I am trying to install FreeBSD in an old Pentium machine (Acer Bravo P/1 00 MS). The Configuration is as follows : Pentium 100 40 Mb memory Adaptec 1520 ISA/SCSI controller Quantun Fireball & Maverick SCSI HDDs (each about 520 MB) Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 NIC. Which of the FreeBSD releases can I install, (or will support the above configuration). I see the new SCSI system in 3.2 release does not have support f or Adaptec card yet. Has the situation changed ? This machine is mainly intented for use as a tftp server. so I am planning to have it headless (without monitor, keyboard), access only through telnet, and through serial console. Which of the releases have support for serial console, especially during bootup. In the above situation, can I do away with X installation (to keep size minimum). Thanks in advance. (PS: Please cc me, as I am not subscribed to mailing list yet) cheers, Anand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message