From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 23:35:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA17805 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:35:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA17800 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:34:57 -0700 (PDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA00052; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:34:44 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA18300; Wed, 1 May 1996 02:36:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT) To: eharley cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Thinking about 386sx25 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, eharley wrote: > I am thinking about using my 386 sx25 with 6 megs of ram and a 150 HD to > run FreeBSD. It has a clone IDE card with an IDE HD and an IDE CDROM. > Anybody think that I should attempt it or not? If you're worried about wether or not it'll be a useable system, a 386sx/25 with 6 megs RAM is enough (I'm on a 386sx/16 w/ 4MB ram and it's quite useable! (useable is such a relative word! ;) Make sure it's got enough swap space, though (10-20 MB, preferabbly closer to 20 than 10, outta do it). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk