From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 23 18:24:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3184E37B63A for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xolaptop.int (xolaptop [192.168.5.9]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8O1OPU57315; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:24:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:24:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham X-X-Sender: To: Chris Aitken Cc: Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010924104644.02ec0fc8@mail.ideal.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > 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. > How about a 386/25 with 8 megs and FreeBSD 1.1.5 ? It actually had 1.0 on it for a few weeks. Ah..the good old days. This machine was a web server and had a ham radio BBS on it as well. I traded a MicroVax for it. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message