Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:20:37 +0000 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Old Computer Message-ID: <1097436036.47283.0.camel@ocean-deep.gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20041010112046.P4592@drizzle.sasknow.net> References: <000c01c4aebd$09ff6140$2275613f@oemcomputer> <20041010112046.P4592@drizzle.sasknow.net>
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--=-Ed8ash3XWgdqz2fD4391 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:28, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Wayne "Thanatos" McBroom wrote to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: >=20 > > I got a hold of a Duracom 486/SX. Which FreeBSD do you think would > > work on it? Just trying to replace the 3.11 system on it. Thanks. > > Later..... >=20 > I suppose it depends on how much RAM you have. You need more RAM to > install FreeBSD than you do to actually run it. The release notes for > 4.10 say this: >=20 > 1.2 Hardware Requirements >=20 > FreeBSD for the i386 requires an 80386 or better processor. The > sysinstall(8) installation program requires 16MB of RAM; after > installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with a > pared-down kernel. You will need at least 100MB of free hard drive > space for the most minimal installation; a more realistic minimum is > on the order of 250-350MB. See below for ways of shrinking existing > DOS partitions in order to install FreeBSD. >=20 > If you are not familiar with configuring hardware for FreeBSD, you > should be sure to read the HARDWARE.TXT file; it contains important > information on what hardware is supported by FreeBSD. >=20 > If you're short on RAM, you can have great fun cabling the drive in and > installing with another machine, and then compiling a custom kernel to > select the appropriate CPU type and remove literally everything you > don't need. Then, tweak your rc.conf to remove all unnecessary daemons > (named, sendmail, usbd, and even cron, syslogd and the like, if you can > survive without). >=20 > - Ryan Another way to overcome the memory limit: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D2967388+0+archive/2004/freeb= sd-questions/20040215.freebsd-questions --=20 Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> --=-Ed8ash3XWgdqz2fD4391 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQBBaYuDfb0Lle2MIEIRAsXNAKC5DsepGdfv/uy0Fol1TdMwk/614gCXcgWU A8hUnJ2IfVFuzl/MlXvT8g== =mkOD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ed8ash3XWgdqz2fD4391--
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