Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 04:29:55 +0100 From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> To: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an old 486 Message-ID: <00c301c11c95$be220550$8ae91e3e@mark2> References: <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJKEAPEDAA.B-Morgan@concentric.net>
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> 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. Can't help you with the CD ROM problem, but I ran FreeBSD 4.1-Release without any problems on a 486 DX2/66 with 12MB RAM and a 260MB hard drive. Not room for much on it, but if all you plan to do is firewall/gateway then it should be more than enough for the amount you'd need to install. If you can't get the CD ROM drive working, the other option is one of the forms of network install - FTP being the easiest (and the download for a minimal install I'm told is about 32MB, so not un-do-able on a 56k modem if that's what you are using). You could use one of your other computers as an FTP server to serve the freeBSD files, to avoid having to download them, however I've never got this working without installing FreeBSD on the other computers in question. YMMV. Hope this helps, Mark (who really should be in bed....) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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