Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:23:16 -0600 From: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD on an old 486 Message-ID: <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJKEAPEDAA.B-Morgan@concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <200108032018.f73KInm25455@ptavv.es.net>
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I have an old 486 that I'd like to use for something. It has a 75MHz CPU(DX4), 32MB of memory, 540MB Hard Drive, 56Kb Modem, EtherLink III ISA (3c509/3c509b), and a SoundBlaster PnP card with an IDE (ATAPI) 8x CDROM. I'm having a hard time getting the CDROM configured. The SoundBlaster PnP card apparently "loses its mind" when powered-down so it must be configured (and I have a Creative-supplied DOS device driver that does that). Is there an equivilent piece of code in FreeBSD? The closest I've come is to boot DOS and the CTRL-ALT-DEL and boot the kern.flp image and change the second IDE parameters to the IO address and IRQ assigned by DOS. I get some boot messages that appear to be from the CDROM drive, but when I get to the point in the installation procedure where I choose Install from CDROM, it complains that there's no CDROM to be found. Should this problem be solved, what version of FreeBSD would you suggest I install given the smallish size of the hard drive? Since one of my possible uses for this box is as a firewall, PicoBSD might be a possibility, but since that's based on old versions of FreeBSD, installing one of these older versions of FreeBSD might be the right thing to do, but I can't seem to find anything old enough. Regards, Brad Morgan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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