From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 15:26: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C233C37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F7443E65 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h63n1fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.162.63]) by maild.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g91MQ2gs013437 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:26:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: (qmail 41543 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Oct 2002 22:25:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:25:56 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Liquid Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bare minimum requirements for FreeBSD installation Message-ID: <20021001222556.GA41509@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Liquid , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901c26995$0e688690$6400a8c0@windows> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Liquid wrote: > Hey everyone. A family member asked me to setup a gateway in his house > so that the internet can be shared between a couple of tenants. I > realize it can be very easily done using a router, but I have this > 486dx2 50mhz at home with 8mb ram. It has a 300mb and 640mb hd in it > too. If I only wish to run a simple router setup using ipfilter and > ipnat, will it run FreeBSD? The only other services running being ssh > and perhaps ftp and I couldn't care less about how fast it runs, as long > as it "does its job" adequately. One other thing, seeing as it'll be > sharing PPPoE adsl, I'll have PPP running in dedicated mode at all > times. > > The reason I'm asking is because it only has 30-pin simm ram slots, and > I haven't even seen any for sale anywhere, nevermind whether or not its > close to reasonable. I realize that if it would have 16 MHz it would > probably run just fine. (30-pin SIMMs are actually still available from specialized dealers, but they are fairly expensive, and most of the time it would be cheaper to get a second-hand computer that has enough memory instead.) That machine will work just fine as a gateway/router/firewall but you will have trouble installing FreeBSD 4.x on it. (I have a 386sx 33MHz w/ 8MB RAM running 4-stable doing this kind of duty, and it works quite well.) Recent versions of FreeBSD require at least 16MB RAM to install. The last version that could be installed on 8MB RAM was FreeBSD 3.2 One possibility is to install 3.2 on it and then upgrade to 4.x in steps afterwards. (FreeBSD 4.x can run with only 8MB RAM, once you have configured swap.) Doing a make world on such a machine will be quite slow, but possible. If you have some faster machine available where you can do the buildworlds and then just do the installworld on the slow machine via NFS it becomes a more viable solution. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message