From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 17:49:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ideal.net.au (ion.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AB337B421 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helium.ideal.net.au (trilluser@helium.staff.ideal.net.au [202.3.35.2]) by mail.ideal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA57984 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:49:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from chris@ideal.net.au) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010924104644.02ec0fc8@mail.ideal.net.au> X-Sender: chris@mail.ideal.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:49:50 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Aitken Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <00e601c14492$2dff3ae0$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <3BAE62D4.1070400@uaa.alaska.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 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 -- Chris Aitken - Administration/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890 __-----------------------------------------__ *** Big Brother *** It just shows that the dull will rule the world. And we will be watching it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message