From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 11:26:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diablo.peritek.com (diablo.peritek.com [198.151.249.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367C815461 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ibjoe@home.com) Received: from neptune (neptune [198.151.249.84]) by diablo.peritek.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA07118; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:25:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: ibjoe@home.com X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <2.2.32.19990810182519.009714e4@netmail.home.com> X-Sender: ibjoe@netmail.home.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:25:19 -0700 To: Johnny Trivedi From: Joe Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried a partial install via ftp on my 486-66 / 16MB / 160MB HD and ran out of disk space, so I sprung $200 for a 13GB drive. Otherwise it works fine, though seems to take a long time to compile (overnight to rebuild the kernel). At 01:05 PM 8/10/99 -0500, you wrote: >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 I don't want to learn some version that is outdated.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. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message