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Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486...
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yeah...you will have to reconfigure everything to the new system and will
most likley get a  huge amount of errors!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Guldemond" <ed_master_of_magic@yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486...


> 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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