Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:49:50 +1000 From: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010924104644.02ec0fc8@mail.ideal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <00e601c14492$2dff3ae0$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <3BAE62D4.1070400@uaa.alaska.edu>
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At 08:45 PM 23/09/2001, you wrote:
> 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).
Personally. my first ever FreeBSD box was a 386/20 with 16 meg of ram which
I had FreeBSD3.2 on it. It was affectionately known as Waldorf named after
one of the 2 grumbly old farts up in the booth from the Muppets.... and
believe me, this box was a grumbly old fart too. But it worked and worked
well (just very slowly :)
I would have KILLED for a P70 at that time. It shouldnt be a problem really.
Chris
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