Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:45:19 -0700 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: lists@vivdev.com Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Need a box, and your experience. Message-ID: <SAK.2001.03.23.aachojqe@support10>
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If you are in the US, you can go buy a 266 with a monitor/keyboard/floppy dirve/mouse basically everything for about $200 dollars, check your local newspaper listings. I recently bought a 500mhz with 17 inch monitor good shape, 3GB HD and 64 RAM for about 400 throught a paper listing. On 03/23/2001 9:27:37 AM, lists is quoted as saying: . . . .|Greetings - . . . .| . . . .|having received some good advice from a reliable source, i am looking to . . . .|pick up a used box to boot freebsd from scratch, and let the pain and . . . .|suffering, uh, I mean the fun and games, begin. . . . .| . . . .|What I have in mind is a 486/66 with 32MB of ram and a 2GB disk. I guess . . . .|I'll need a floppy and a cd, if that needs to be said. Could probably do . . . .|with an ethernet connection, although that can probably be added later. . . . .|I'll need a keyboard, but I think I have a monitor that'll work. . . . .| . . . .|How have you, or would you locate such a one, and what should I be aware / . . . .|beware of? How inexpensively can I do this? . . . .| . . . .|thanks, . . . .| . . . .|chris . . . .| . . . .|lists@vivdev.com . . . .| . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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