From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 3 20:23:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA5737B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from B-Morgan@concentric.net) Received: from cos80474 (cpe-24-221-198-127.co.sprintbbd.net [24.221.198.127]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA28358 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brad Morgan" To: Subject: FreeBSD on an old 486 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:23:16 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200108032018.f73KInm25455@ptavv.es.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal 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 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