Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 12:51:18 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Brad Morgan" <B-Morgan@concentric.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an old 486 Message-ID: <15212.13846.161229.193671@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <33451720@toto.iv>
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Brad Morgan <B-Morgan@concentric.net> types: > 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. What makes you think the CDROM drive is IDE and ATAPI? The SoundBlaster CDROM drivers I'm familiar with all used proprietary interfaces of some kind. If that's the case, the "matcd" device is the only thing that might work with it. > Should this problem be solved, what version of FreeBSD would you suggest > I install given the smallish size of the hard drive? Any of them you want. X on that machine might be a problem, and I'd avoid any of the "desktop managers" like the plague (but I'd do that no matter what machine I was on :-), but other than that you've got enough resources for FreeBSD. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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