From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 2 17:25:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6160215B74 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:25:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16011; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:20:54 -0700 (PDT) From: dmp@aracnet.com Message-ID: <37CF14A0.32D99BBC@aracnet.com> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:21:52 -0700 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HW requirements References: <3.0.3.32.19990902151216.00733f9c@slider> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Rothenberg wrote: > I have asked my company cohorts to bring in all their unused computer > equip. I plan on making a BSD only box out of all the junk I collect. I > already have collected a P 166 and a few misguided motherboards. Is there > anything in particular that I should not plan on using in terms of old > periferals? ie 1x CD ROMs, hard drives under 250MB, ISA bus cards (though I > might just spring for a new motherboard for the 166 to avoid this), old > 3.5" floppy drives....?? > > My plan is to hook the BSD box to my new cable modem and have it provide > access to the net for my home network. For that use only, what kind of > memory should I expect ot put into the BSD box? No less than 8MB. I put together a gateway/firewall box using a P100, 16MB of RAM, a 2x IDE CD-ROM, no floppy, and a 210MB hard drive. I only needed the the bin, man pages, and kernel source packages, and I've still got more than 50MB of disk left out of the 180MB I had. I didn't see any need to install the ports tree since this box will pretty much just sit in the corner untouched. Normal operation seldom sees more than .01 load. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message