From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 01:26:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C916A4DA for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:26:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA4043D46 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:26:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 22793 invoked by uid 0); 28 Aug 2006 01:26:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (216.186.148.249) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 28 Aug 2006 01:26:45 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:26:43 -0500 To: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:26:47 -0000 On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz > processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type > of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's > linux, freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will > run with enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will > just be to prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions? Haven't booted it in a long time but have FreeBSD 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 on a 16 MHz 386sx16 with 4 MB of RAM. Has an 8 bit NE2000 NIC which required the NFS window be reduced to 1k or so. I used this as a "portable FreeBSD netinstall box" back in the bad old days before I could afford a CD-R, or even have CD-ROM on many machines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.