Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:43:02 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Steve Bertrand" <steve@northnetworks.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Newbie Question... Message-ID: <002801c1ce1e$41876ea0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3C949497.1010309@northnetworks.ca>
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> Hi there, > > I have 2 Windows 2000 servers providing DNS, http, https, ftp hosting > for numerous clients on the internet. I recently installed Mandrake on > my laptop which is my everyday workstation. I have an older box (p166) > that I would like to use as a test Unix based server, but it is very low > on resources, such as hard disk space and memory (40MB, 2GB). I am > getting somewhat familiar working at the terminal on my linux machine, > and would like to know if BSD will install on such hardware and how I go > about installing it using minimal resources. FreeBSD will install just fine on a machine with 2GB of disk space and 40MB of RAM. (I've got 3 machines doing various things which are all P166s with 1GB or 2GB disks.) Depending on what your laptop *is*, you may run into some device problems (sound and video card support). > Also, how do I become a member of this mailing list? See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html (Section C.1.2 - How to Subscribe) -- Matt Emmerton GSI Computer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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