Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:21:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> To: Johnny Trivedi <trivedi@corecomm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990810141432.21033A-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> In-Reply-To: <37B06A03.79AB5E93@corecomm.net>
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FreeBSD 3.2 is the most recent. I think the minimum install is 60 megs.
You could do that and then add whatever you feel like. What may be a
problem is the fact that the FreeBSD install program needs at least 5 megs
to run, not sure how much the system needs to boot up.
I originally tried FreeBSD on a 486 66 MhZ with 16 megs of RAM.
It actually seemed to run better than a Windows box Pentium 100 with 32
megs. The exception was trying to run any memory hogging apps. For
example, Netscape took a while to come up, and forget doing much of
anything else with Netscape was running. Also, the imlib seemed to be one
big swap file (imlib.c). I got "out of swap space" every time I tried to
compile... In other words, upgrade to 32 megs of RAM, and if possible, get
a bigger hard drive, if you want to install any extras..
> I have been trying to step in to some sort of *nix environment but am
> not too sure that I want to try it on my current PC. I do, however,
> have another PC. It is a 486 with 25 MHz, only 4 MB of ram, 170 Mb Hard
> disk. The only question I have is that will a FULL version of FreeBSD
> run on my PC. I don't want to learn some version that is outdated.
> What other resources can I turn to for questions. I have already
> checked out some reading material on amazon.com but before I purchase
> anything I want to know if the OS will work on my PC.
>
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