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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:04:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Edward Guldemond <ed_master_of_magic@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486...
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I don't know if anyone has raised this issue, but in
the Handbook, it says minimum of 5 megs RAM to install
and 4 megs to run.  Just my 2 cents.  Actually, I plan
on ripping out the hard drive, moving it to my
development machine, installing FreeBSD on it there,
and moving it back to the old 486.  Any specific
issues I should be aware of?

Thanks a bunch,

Ed
--- Simon Morton <simon.morton@verizon.net> wrote:
> Edward Guldemond wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >     I was wondering if it was possible to install
> > FreeBSD on an old 486 that I have laying around my
> > house.  The intent is to have it running as an NAT
> box
> > and as a firewall.  The specs are:
> > 
> > - Cyrex 486 DX2/66MhZ
> > - 8 Megs RAM
> > - RealTec clone network card
> > - 8 Gigs hard drive space (upgraded from 400 Meg)
> > - 4x CDROM drive
> > - Cirrus Logic VGA card
> > - External 56K modem
> > 
> > I was wondering if there was anything special I
> had to
> > do to get the install running.  It hangs after
> > selecting the packages to install.  Upgrading the
> RAM
> > isn't an option right now, unfortunatly.
> 
> 
> Recent versions of FreeBSD require 12MB of RAM to
> install, although, 
> once installed, it is supposed to run with 8MB.
> 
> I recently installed FreeBSD 4.2 on a 486DX/33 which
> originally had
> only 8MB of RAM.  I found memory online at a
> computer surplus outlet
> and was able to upgrade to 16MB for a grand total of
> $4.00 (+ $8.00
> for shipping) so if cost is your issue maybe you
> could go that route.
> 
> HTH
> Simon
> -- 
> http://www.SimonMorton.com
> smorton at acm dot org
> \rm -rf /bin/laden
> 


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