From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 16:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C6A37B41E for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0976.cvx25-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.219.211]) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16K77r-0003Qb-00; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:13:24 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:41:55 -0800 Subject: Re: question about bsd From: Wes Baehr To: Doug Reynolds , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20011228183019.DDC5837B435@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 12/28/01 10:31 AM, "Doug Reynolds" wrote: > 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 :) Oh, no, a make world would be hell :P I just leave it on to waste power It actually did install with 8mb of RAM installed, without complaining (I installed using the floppy disks over a net install from one of my other FreeBSD pcs) -iWes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message