From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 18:28:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.svr.pol.co.uk (mail3.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BD837B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from [195.92.168.141] (helo=tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk) by mail3.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 15AiPm-0001H6-00; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:28:46 +0100 Received: from modem-28.rottweiler.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.25.200.28] helo=mark2) by tmailb1.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 15AiPl-0001bT-00; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:28:45 +0100 Message-ID: <02e601c0f53a$7df217e0$0200a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "Matthew K. Cowger" , "Cynic" , "Melody Akins" , References: Subject: Re: Another Beginner Squeaks Up Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:28:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 > >>>My comments below > > The ideal scenario (for me, anyway :) would be along these lines: > 1) get a spare machine (something like P133 would be perfect), > and put it next to your windows box > ....... > > This is EXACTLY What I did. I got on ebay and bought a Pentium 166 w/ 32 MB > RAM and a 1GB HD. I set BSD up just enough that I could telnet into it, > then just put it in a closet with a netork cable and a power cable plugged > in. Now I just telnet or SSH into at my whim. I use it all the time...its > incredibly useful. Try your local college, they often have old computer for > sale cheap. Ditto. Only I did it with a 486 first, with just 260MB hard drive, which is not big enough really. The computer was fine however, so anything above a 486 with a decent (for them days) sized hard drive would do you fine. The 486 hummed along under my stairs for months, and had a fantastic uptime until someone unplugged it to vacuum :+) Just replaced it with a more decent computer though, and I'm gonna try xwindows soon.... Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message