Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:39:17 -0500 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: "Josh Richesin" <jrichesin@peoplepc.com>, "Edward Guldemond" <ed_master_of_magic@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486... Message-ID: <01112819391700.00935@mercedes.local.domain> In-Reply-To: <003701c17842$31364760$84ade4d8@bendcable.com> References: <20011128170422.99719.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> <003701c17842$31364760$84ade4d8@bendcable.com>
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I have successfully used as new as 4.2 (and I believe 4.3) on 486s with 8MB of RAM and 325MB drives without a problem. They make dandy routers/firewalls/nameservers and even mailservers for small-to-mid. I have heard tales of RedHat (yes, I know...) running their corporate email on a 486. Doubtless that one has more than than 8MB. And you can run as large a harddrive as you want as a slave regardless of the BIOS. FreeBSD will see it properly. Take the minimal install option to begin with and load what packages you need afterwards. But don't think you can run X. You can't. And. This maybe should really be on -questions. But... On Wednesday 28 November 2001 02:23 pm, Josh Richesin wrote: > 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> > Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > 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, <snip> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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