From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 17:43:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2605837B417 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.178.46]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020318014313.USLV7112.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:43:13 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g2I1Va745685; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:31:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002801c1ce1e$41876ea0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Steve Bertrand" , References: <3C949497.1010309@northnetworks.ca> Subject: Re: Newbie Question... Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:43:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 > 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