From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 17 6:15:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD29637B401 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 06:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from issv0171.isis.de (issv0171.isis.de [195.158.131.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9549243F85 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 06:15:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charlie@begeistert.org) Received: (qmail 724 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Mar 2003 14:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wonderland.1047891566.fake) ([195.158.153.123]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.isis.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Mar 2003 14:15:39 -0000 Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:17:07 +0100 From: Charlie Clark In-Reply-To: <0FEDFD1F-587E-11D7-B9DF-000393CDCA6A@rightcode.net> Message-Id: <20030317151707.2091.12@wonderland.1047891566.fake> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <0FEDFD1F-587E-11D7-B9DF-000393CDCA6A@rightcode.net> Subject: Re: Hardware question To: Charles Kline User-Agent: Beam devel Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2003-03-17 at 14:40:48 [+0100], Charles Kline wrote: > Am I right in understanding that FreeBSD will NOT run on any old (ex PC > hardware)? No you are wrong in this assumption. FreeBSD was written to run on PC hardware (386 and up). > For example. I have a Gateway PC that I have been running Win2k on. I > hate it. I want it to be a linux server. Can I use this hardware to run > FreeBSD or do I need to find an old Sparc? This should be perfect for FreeBSD. Charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message