From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 19:25:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F45106566B for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexus@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A398FC14 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so90862ywh.14 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:25:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Vh3EqPwnVccWW7d6KXcDk+cg2vRKXduSX6gShOG5bTw=; b=gNupwVYr8BlWB4E/kbgaJTGhpPAzZy+CIODKq+hGs2pL65GLgmbdAY9N0i1yfXL5r/ qaJufB3Q3YWnyHv2ncL/X7FxofZmF2/+6J95LuvJP5WBMyqElXYGkbK/dJILxTLEO6f7 erLKAKwf6E9gcmzvHuXeAitJC3M+YKeP2MIFE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=iz3Amp7pVJb+sGogb2A2V+O//Aya7wYyCsK1V0pvNwxCjcYwWXPRha/7sn98buds5W ijtjW9PAEPC0iO7s+i7S4WAUf2DaMxmpwOQ6GlB0X7f6TBT4G3WkSG2WcM1jblUmocU3 hXzp6sK2iJiCJr9Npwf74x0x50hOxEPen7zrA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.168.37 with SMTP id q37mr2102374ybe.265.1268767556397; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:25:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:25:56 -0400 Message-ID: <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> From: alexus To: andrew clarke Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: google@alexus.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:25:57 -0000 On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote: > On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wr= ote: > >> > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III >> > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. > > I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. > > ... > >> Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process >> objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of >> assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. > > 2 GB for / seems excessive to me. =C2=A01 GB should be plenty. =C2=A0I ha= ve 500 > MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2: > > Filesystem =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Size =C2=A0 =C2=A0Used =C2=A0 Avail Capacity =C2= =A0Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a =C2=A0 =C2=A0496M =C2=A0 =C2=A0144M =C2=A0 =C2=A0312M =C2=A0 = =C2=A031% =C2=A0 =C2=A0/ > > Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to > use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard > drive space is a bit academic. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2 and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :) --=20 http://alexus.org/