Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:31:43 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Wes Baehr" <wbaehr@mac.com> Subject: Re: question about bsd Message-ID: <20011228183019.DDC5837B435@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <B850EB0D.140C%wbaehr@mac.com>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:19 -0800, Wes Baehr wrote: > > >On 12/26/01 2:00 PM, "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:56:16 -0600, Murphy, Derrick wrote: >> >>> I have an OLD 486 25Mhz monocrome screen toshiba laptop with 4 MB of ram and >>> a floppy drive. The hd is 200Mb What kind of unix could i install on >>> this? Im guessing it would have to be a pretty old version to work with so >>> little. If anyone knows of any free unix versions that would work with >>> this, please let me know ^_^ Thanks >> >> picobsd. >> >> you need like 12mbs of ram for freebsd > >Not true, I run freebsd 4.3-RELEASE on a 33mhz 486 with 8MB of RAM. >Although the performance is worse than a lagging 28.8 dialup user, it still >'works'. (I gave the box the name 'latency' for its slowness :P) i guess 8 would work, but i think you need 12 to install dont you? freebsd ran excellent with my amd 5x86-133 with 28megs of ram.. i used it for a DoD ppp server and dumb stuff. wouldn't try a make world on it though. :) my current amd 450 with 256megs and ATA 100 with do a build world under 2hrs :) --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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