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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:21:05PM +0900, Kazuhiro Satoyoshi wrote:

> >They're old, but not so old that 8.1 shouldn't work.
>   Some day, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE (i386, amd64), but I could't.
>   I did't know the reason why...
>   That's why I though to need old FreeBSD version for my PC.
>    
>   OK, I'll try to install latest version.
>   Thank you very much.

Good.   Try the latest RELEASE version.
Then, don't give up if you have a problem.
Study and find out what problem is happening and then attack it.
Probably the only real problem you might have with the older machine 
is having enough storage.  You might have to add some.

////jerry

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