Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:48:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net> To: Chuck Morris <dude@1st.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: creating a workstation Message-ID: <XFMail.010305204859.y3k@gti.net> In-Reply-To: <001f01c0a462$bbe87d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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>>On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:56:24PM -0500, Chuck Morris wrote: >>> I am interested in making an old 486 pentium upgrade machine >>into a freeBSD workstation. It only has a 200MB hard drive. The >>system bios will not recognize drives larger than 512MB. Could >>you be so kind to tell me if I can run freeBSD using X11 on such a >>small hard drive ? I recently installed 4.2-release on an old notebook with a 200MB hard drive and 12MB ram, with Xwindows and netscape. Took a couple of tries to get everything to fit properly, but its a fairly usable system. didnt install any man pages or documentation or help files, which is a little bit annoying. >uname -a FreeBSD hitchiker.amc-inc.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13: 02:55 GMT 2000 jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I probably could have set this up slightly better. >df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 39647 27588 8888 76% / /dev/wd0s1f 109783 94611 6390 94% /usr /dev/wd0s1e 19815 1633 16597 9% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >pkg_info XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3 XFree86 a.out compatability libraries kermit-7.0.196 File transfer and terminal emulation utility for serial line netscape-gold-3.04 Netscape ver 3 web-surfboard (gold) netscape-remote-1.0 Utility to pass commands to running netscape process netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07 Netscape wrapper to avoid multiple invocation and mo re screen-3.9.8_3 A multi-screen window manager ssh-1.2.27_1 Secure shell client and server (remote login program) w3m-0.1.11.p.17 A pager/text-based WWW browser -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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