From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 3 16: 6:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F48237B403 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@mediadesign.nl) Received: (qmail 18867 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Jun 2001 23:06:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 01:06:15 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: legacy Message-ID: <20010604010615.I15640@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B1AB453.A7331ED1@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:00:39PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:00:39PM -0700, Chuck Rouillard wrote: > > > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, B A D wrote: > > > Hi, I have a question, I'm planning on getting an older machine and they > > have a legacy hardware. Will this OS support it? even the dates go far > > back in the '80s? Hope i get the response from you. Thanks > > Dwayne > > Maybe. If you plan on running a system with hardware > dating back to "the '80s", you may want to consider > running some of the older versions of FreeBSD. They > can be found here: http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/, > under "i386 Releases available". 2.2.8-RELEASE may > be a good choice. hmm.. maybe ELKS for 8086/8088/80286 systems... and have a look at netbsd for strange architectures -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@linuxfreak.nl < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' Say, What does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow? --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message