From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 10 13:56: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3989014DB6 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA18007; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: John Trivedi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will it work on my PC? In-Reply-To: <19990710202540.8781.rocketmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, John Trivedi wrote: > I have been trying for months to find a new OS for my old PC. I > came across your web-site and saw the configurations needed to run > FreeBSD. I have an old 486SX, 25MHz, 4Mb of RAM which I plan to > upgrade, and a 170Mb hard disk. Do you think that any version of UNIX > will work on my computer? Any response will be greatly appreciated. If you can find an old release like 2.1.0 or possibly 2.1.5 it will install and work on that box. If you can bring the system up to 8M RAM the current stuff will work fine too. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message