From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 6:52:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C31E14C4C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16724; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:15:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: duke normandin Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Compaq DeskPro XE && FBSD 3.3 In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 29 Oct 1999, duke normandin wrote: > I have a Compaq DeskPro 486DX2x66, 20M RAM, 1G HD, Compaq NIC(??), > NEC 4x6 CDROM, and Compaq Qvision on-board video. I want to take > the plunge and learn *nix (FBSD). Am I beat before I start with > the above hardware? TIA please wrap lines at 70 characters. I don't see any problem running FreeBSD on this machine, you'll need to somehow find out the chipset, I/O ports and IRQ for the network card if you want it to work. You'll also need to find out the schipset of the graphics card if you want to have a chance of getting X up and running (the graphics system). I also wonder what exact cdrom you have... scsi? IDE? proprietary? Several notes: a new sure to be supported ethernet card will probably be under 20$. same deal with the video card, but if you can open the box up of find out what exact card you have in there you can use it. find out what cdrom drive you have... Also, you can always download the floppy install disks and see how well you can get it to recognize your hardware. see : www.freebsd.org -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message