From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 3 3:59:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD0F14F79 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 03:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from max.alleswirdgelber (uzs106@ascend-tk-p187.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.187]) by f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA58728; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:59:16 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by max.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA00357; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:47:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@news.alleswirdgelber) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald To: dmp@aracnet.com Cc: Michael Rothenberg , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HW requirements In-Reply-To: <37CF14A0.32D99BBC@aracnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > 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 > No less than 8MB. > And a big swap partition. I had a 486 with 16 MB Ram and only 10 MB swap (my first experimental system, one 125 MB IDE drive, everything into /, it works). Sometimes the screen gets many colors, system stops and reboots by itself (how perfect). This could be circumvented by other 16 MB Ram. So there seems to be some need for memory, besides the old rule, that swap should be twice as large as RAM (and a little bit more). Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message