From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 30 6:16:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from coimbra.oss.uswest.net (coimbra.oss.uswest.net [209.180.20.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F0B37BDA6 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 06:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nitebirdz@coimbra.oss.uswest.net) Received: from localhost (nitebirdz@localhost) by coimbra.oss.uswest.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA06719; Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:17:56 -0500 (CDT) From: To: theoea@pacbell.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re using a 486 In-Reply-To: <39322AAA.33DF5434@postoffice.pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 May 2000 theoea@pacbell.net wrote: > I have a 486. Can I install BSD on it & use it as a connection to the > internet. It would be like those $99 internet appliances that are > advertised. > I managed to run 2.2.8-stable on an old 486 with 16 Mb of RAM. However, it wasn't really faste (with X loaded). Since you'd like to use it as an Internet appliance or sort of, I'd definitely recommend to at least install 64 Mb of RAM and a good video card. -- Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Tips, articles, news, links... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message