Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:34:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: JOHN MUELLER <asjwm2@uaa.alaska.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow PC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109231630210.4143-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <3BAE62D4.1070400@uaa.alaska.edu>
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, JOHN MUELLER wrote: > Thanks again for the help....OK, first question .. will FreeBSD run > on a 75 or 90 Mhz pentium ? I probably should give them to the Salvation > army, but.... I get to the "extracting bin into / directory" progress > bar and it hangs at about 4%. With my limited experience, I still > suspect the CPU is the cause of the hang. This one had a primitive > Win98 on it. I guess the primary question is, "What is the minimum > processor speed required to run FreeBSD ?" FreeBSD should run on just about any i386 (read, 386 and up) CPU. it doesn't mean it'll be fast, or useful with Xwindows (which is a large pig on the CPU resources). you'll need to give some more info on what's going on during the install, so we can be of more help. while the install is going on, please hit ALT-F2 and take a look at the diagnostic output. it may just be that there's a large file, or some wierd disk timeout issue that you've not seen. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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