From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 2:41:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E423E37B412 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8O9fac09333; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:41:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <008f01c143db$df7a0820$2212dc0a@lino.qc.ca> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:41:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Eric Landreville Subject: RE: 486 DX33 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try another version fo FreeBSD. A 3.x-version could work. On 23-Sep-2001 Eric Landreville wrote: > Hi , > I was trying to install Freebsd on an old 486DX33 my aunt gave me , > but when it installs , the computer freezes. Everything works well with my 2 > floppies , I also see that the CD is spinning , it begins to copy , but it > freezes, I burned another CD , I thought it could be that, but it does the > same thing. I spoke about this to some of my friends and they say the problem > is my memory. I only got 8 Megs of memory and i think that could be the > problem. I was wondering if i had 20 or even 32 megs of memory if freebsd > would be running. I don't want to install any X-window component , only the > text mode and I'd like to use my Freebsd box as a Web,ftp server and maybe as > a gateway for my personal home network. Would I be able to do all those things > with my pc if I'd have 20 Megs of Ram. > > > Eric ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message