Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:57:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Eric Landreville <elandrev@lino.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: 486 DX33 Message-ID: <XFMail.20010924165756.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <008f01c143db$df7a0820$2212dc0a@lino.qc.ca>
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sysadmin@aliedtours.com says:
I'm sorry i'm just emailing you and not the whole message board, but I
am just
signed up with the newsletter.
I installed freebsd on a 486 with 12 megs ram, and everything worked
fine. It
installed, and everything -- 12 megs ram. Performance was really improved with
20 megs
of ram, but I was doing more then just a router when I used that machine. If
you just
want to route and do some local ftp and apache then it should be fine. Dont
expect
miracles.
But, yes, you should be able to run and install freebsd with only 12
megs of
ram. I installed freebsd 4.3 when I did that, and I dont think that 4.4 should
be so
much different. I hope you succeed and I hope you have fun!
-andrew
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
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