From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 23 14:43:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 361EA37B71B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 22:43:36 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:45:19 -0700 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: lists@vivdev.com Cc: newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re:Need a box, and your experience. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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