From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 10 08:37:07 2005 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 7B56C16A41C for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:37:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005CB43D49 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:37:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j6A8cJb24756; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Cecil" , Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:37:01 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? 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: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:37:07 -0000 This is fine for FreeBSD 4.11, yes it will take a long time to build a kernel, but not more than 24 hours. You also get some valuable lessons in space planning on a hard disk. The original PDP-11 only had 64k (that's k, not meg) of ram I believe. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Cecil >Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:16 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? > > >I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a >freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a >486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram >though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect >out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box >only to learn perl, python, C++ and some other stuff >on. > >Xeys > > > >____________________________________________________ >Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >