From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 27 15:18:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from out004pub.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9944D37B419 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net ([199.171.52.20]) by out004pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id fARNKBM08350 Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:20:12 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C041D7B.5040705@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:10:51 -0500 From: Simon Morton Reply-To: smorton@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,zh-CN,de-DE,zh-TW,zh, zh-õ` MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edward Guldemond Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486... References: <20011127225335.81684.qmail@web14601.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Edward Guldemond wrote: > All, > I was wondering if it was possible to install > FreeBSD on an old 486 that I have laying around my > house. The intent is to have it running as an NAT box > and as a firewall. The specs are: > > - Cyrex 486 DX2/66MhZ > - 8 Megs RAM > - RealTec clone network card > - 8 Gigs hard drive space (upgraded from 400 Meg) > - 4x CDROM drive > - Cirrus Logic VGA card > - External 56K modem > > I was wondering if there was anything special I had to > do to get the install running. It hangs after > selecting the packages to install. Upgrading the RAM > isn't an option right now, unfortunatly. Recent versions of FreeBSD require 12MB of RAM to install, although, once installed, it is supposed to run with 8MB. I recently installed FreeBSD 4.2 on a 486DX/33 which originally had only 8MB of RAM. I found memory online at a computer surplus outlet and was able to upgrade to 16MB for a grand total of $4.00 (+ $8.00 for shipping) so if cost is your issue maybe you could go that route. HTH Simon -- http://www.SimonMorton.com smorton at acm dot org \rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message