From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 22:08:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21468 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA21459 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 15865 invoked by uid 268); 4 Feb 1999 06:08:09 -0000 Message-ID: <19990204060809.15864.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Getting older versions of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <36B8A459.6201DD56@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Feb 3, 99 11:32:41 am" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:08:09 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: geoffr@is.co.za From: geoffr@is.co.za X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes : > Charlie ROOT wrote: > > > > I have a 486 Toshiba T1910 laptop with 4 megs of ram I would desperately > > like to outfit with an old version of FreeBSD. 2.0.5 would be fine, and I > > could always upgrade, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on your ftp/www > > sites. Please help me out so I don't end up throwing that Toshiba in the > > trash. > > I 'd go for 1.1.5 if you can find someone with a copy.. > there are still a few floating around.. > it was SOLID! I still have 1.1.5.1 available at home, and would be happy to organise to get a copy out :-) You should find that early versions of 2.x do OK on a 4M machine - I still have a 386, albeit with 8M, running an early 2.something current system. (How's that for an antique system!) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message