From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 22 5:29:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.a2000.nl (duck.a2000.nl [62.108.1.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64BC37B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 05:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from node10b74.a2000.nl ([24.132.11.116] helo=chello.nl) by smtp1.a2000.nl with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #4) id 166tvd-0003AK-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:30:09 +0100 Message-ID: <3BFCFDD4.9DEFCEE5@chello.nl> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:29:56 +0100 From: Deff X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an IBM P75? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If u are not sure wether to change or not... I advice to start with soemthing like Pico-BSD. Virtualy similar to Free BSD but reall small and lite. Boots from a floppy so u do not have to kill yer old install. Deff Marc Smits wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Frits Westra wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > The last couple of weeks I've been browsing through many FreeBSD > > websites but I still can't make up my mind whether switching to > > FreeBSD is a good idea or not. > > > > This is the vintage pc that's available for FreeBSD: > > > > IBM PC330 (Pentium 75) > > 16 MB RAM > > 540 MB IDE HDD > > 33k6 Modem > > There is no CD player (yet) > > Currently it has Win95, which I want to remove. > > > > Hello Fritz, > > I started using FreeBSD a couple of months ago on a pentium 133, which > would work fine. If I would know how to operate properly. According to > the Complete FreeBSD Handbook' it should even work on a 486 with your > specifications. > > Please note that all graphical applications (as Netscape / opera) do use a > lot of CPU. And do not try the FTP-install through your modem :-) > > Grtz, Marc > > Wanadoo, http://www.wanadoo.nl/ > Marc Smits, Wanadoo helpdesk > Muiderstraat 1; Postbus 11095, 1001 GB Amsterdam > T +31 20 5355 666, F +31 20 5355 195, E marcs@support.wanadoo.nl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message