From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 15 17:14:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from milkyway.org (lta-r-1.usit.net [205.241.194.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711941531C for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toby@milkyway.org) Received: from milkyway.org (rigel.milkyway.org [205.241.194.19]) by milkyway.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA04441; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:15:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36EDB0C3.37CF190A@milkyway.org> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:15:47 -0500 From: Toby Swanson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lyons Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query / Laptop Install References: <000801be6f0c$f76a92c0$a69f143e@a010431761> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org lyons wrote: > ... is there a " light " version of freeBSD, but still enough to use > with, e.g., " beginers tutorial ", which files are needed, and what > amount of memory is required? I've run FreeBSD on a 386SX20 with 8Mb of RAM, and a 200 Mb hard drive. All it was doing was being a DNS server and POP3 post office for a small, 8 user, office. Rather slow but it worked! Choose the smallest possible install and add stuff as needed. Toby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message