From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 16:56:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15613 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15601 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:56:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15990; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:25:21 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA05984; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:24:55 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981205112455.H603@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:24:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Rick Hamell , Aaron Nadeau Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why won't this thing work? References: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Rick Hamell on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:43:06PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 4 December 1998 at 14:43:06 -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: >> hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers. Both >> of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10. I got them for free from my >> school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box. If you could >> help me get these things running I would really appricate it. > > It's possible that they're not fast enough to run FreeBSD... The > minimum recommendations are 486sx-25 or so. Where do you get this idea from? > That being said people have run 386 fine. Indeed. You should be very careful about statements you make. People could believe them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message