From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 17:45:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E96837B421 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat ([12.93.210.229]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010924004518.DPWS28026.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@tomcat>; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:45:18 +0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "JOHN MUELLER" , Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:45:17 -0400 Message-ID: <00e601c14492$2dff3ae0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3BAE62D4.1070400@uaa.alaska.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of JOHN MUELLER > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 6:32 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Slow PC and FreeBSD > > 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 ?" > (target practice) From personal experience, I've run FreeBSD successfully on a 486-33 before. Pentium 75 or 90 (as you mentioned before) should work fine. How much memory is installed in these machines? You need 12 MB to install FreeBSD, but 8 MB to run it (although, you'd get better results with more memory, obviously). Also, check your hard drives and your CD-Rom drive. You may have a problem there. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message