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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:37:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To: JOHN MUELLER <asjwm2@uaa.alaska.edu>
Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD
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Do you install from CD? I experienced just about the same when installing from
CD. So during the install I used another CD-reader.

You could also try another version of FreeBSD. I have installed 2.2.8 on a 386/50
with 4 meg ram and veeeeery slow hard disk.


On 23-Sep-2001 JOHN MUELLER wrote:
>     Thanks again for the help....OK,  first question .. will FreeBSD run 
> on a 75 or 90 Mhz pentium ? I probably should give them to the Salvation 
> army, but....  I get to the "extracting bin into / directory" progress 
> bar and it hangs at about 4%.  With my limited experience, I still 
> suspect the CPU is the cause of the hang.  This one had a primitive 
> Win98 on it.  I guess the primary question is, "What is the minimum 
> processor speed required to run FreeBSD ?"  
> (target practice)
> Johnny
> 
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