From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 12: 2:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5768F1592E for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA10765; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:56:03 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199904211856.NAA10765@iaces.com> Subject: Re: Inquiry... In-Reply-To: <9A75E4B6D1DCD1119F6F0060975EABE70512FA5B@pascamail-2.beach.citysearch.com> from Diego Baz at "Apr 21, 99 11:49:18 am" To: Diego_Baz@citysearch.com (Diego Baz) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:56:03 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (Questions FreeBSD) X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Never send mail just to me. I don't know all the answers. This isn't tech support from a company. This is a mailling list. In a previous message, Diego Baz said: > Will FreeBSD run on a 486SX system running at 33Mhz with 4 - and only 4 - > megs of RAM? I believe that it will. Probably pretty slow, though. > If so, what do you mean I'll need 5 megs of RAM to install it? Where am I > supposed to get an extra meg of RAM just for the installation? Doesn't that > mean you need at least 5 megs of RAM, period? No. The install program needs the memory, but the regular system can work in the smaller memory. That doesn't mean that you'd be happy with the speed. I actually have a 486 DX/2 50 (I think) with 8 meg of ram, running at home as a gateway. Ethernet to user ppp. Works great. But I wouldn't use it as a desktop. -- ``If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be rolling over in his grave.'' President Gerald Ford. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message