From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 10 09:32:13 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 9C21B16A41C for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:32:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508D443D46 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:32:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j6A9W94f004118 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:32:09 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cs331-95.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.167.96]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j6A9Vkrm012342 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:31:48 -0700 Message-ID: <42D0EAE9.3050704@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:31:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 09:32:13 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >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 >> >> Good luck fitting everything on there. You can get FreeBSD on 250 maybe, but that's just the base system. After installing Python/any GNU stuff or sources, you may run into disk space issues. Then again, you can plan on having your swap slice being small (~50 Mb if you wish). Email me personally, if you want any DRAM because I have some laying around that you might want from a 486 ;). -Garrett