From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 18:47:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83B816A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5235F43D70 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:47:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-160-207-47.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.207.47]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBCIl3GK029281 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:47:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41BC921E.205@mac.com> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:46:54 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Hoover References: <20041212173513.95870.qmail@web14121.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041212173513.95870.qmail@web14121.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:47:06 -0000 Jerry Hoover wrote: > I would like to learn FreeBSD 4.8 (I think I have a copy) > What I need to know, what does it require? > CPU? > RAM? > Hard Drive Space? A 486-grade CPU or later, 16MB of RAM, and 1 GB of disk space is something resembling a minimum configuration. If you want to run a GUI environment involving X11, make that a Pentium-2 grade system and 64+ MB of RAM, and 4+ GB of disk space. -- -Chuck