From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 13:38:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804FE37B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2PLZYH11934; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:35:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABE657D.BDD52457@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:39:09 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Conley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <3ABE4EB6.D6656276@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Barry Conley wrote: > > I presently have a pentium 2 machine running Win 98. I have a second 13 > Gig hard drive that I can use for FreeBSD. Would this be a good idea or > should I run the OS on a separate stand alone machine. All depends on whether you want to run both at once. That's the only factor I can think of. > I want to use the > OS for managing Web sites I create. Also how much RAM is required for > FreeBSD 4.3? Thank you. I think the bare minumum is 12M. If you want to run the GUI, I would think the minumum would be 16M. A more workable number is about 48M min, 64 practical. I work with 40M and I curse myself regularly for not having more. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message