From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 10:30:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDC5837B435 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:30:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20023 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 18:30:18 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-196.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.196) by smtp2.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 18:30:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 62486 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 18:30:16 -0000 Received: from mother.wg.local (HELO mother.wastegate.net) (192.168.1.2) by dap-209-166-135-196.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 18:30:16 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Wes Baehr" Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:31:43 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: question about bsd Message-Id: <20011228183019.DDC5837B435@hub.freebsd.org> 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 Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:19 -0800, Wes Baehr wrote: > > >On 12/26/01 2:00 PM, "Doug Reynolds" 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