From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 19:28:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A3137B416 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AC98478311; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:58:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:58:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "Stephen R. Ceasar" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for 2.1.7-RELEASE (was: IBM Thinkpad 340) Message-ID: <20020402125829.C29214@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <38CA48964A285E418F62C5A379437DB2AF0F@hal.thedenn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <38CA48964A285E418F62C5A379437DB2AF0F@hal.thedenn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Monday, 1 April 2002 at 13:33:35 -0500, Stephen R. Ceasar wrote: > > I posted this to freebsd-newbies but have gotten no response. That's the correct response. -newbies is not a support forum. > not sure if this is something you folks deal with but I'm lost > looking for answers. if I would be better server redirecting this > elsewhere just let me know. > > So I got an old IBM Thinkpad 340... > 125 MB HD & 4 Megs of RAM > > According to what I've read, the last version I can install and > successfully run is 2.1.7. If necessary with an upgrade from 2.0.5 > > 1. Am I correct? Possibly. Certainly you're not going to get blazing fast performance out of 4 MB of memory. Can you find any more? > 2. Where can I find such old versions? The FTP site only seems to > hold versions back to 3.5.1. Good question. I have it here, but it would be difficult to get to you. Probably what you want is a subject line which attracts people to the issue, something like "Looking for 2.1.7-RELEASE". Hey, let's do it! Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message