From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 17:21:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3450337B69C for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.197.154.230] ([209.197.154.230]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G7LD3V00.HBU; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:21:31 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Andresen,Jason R." Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:43:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Reply-To: 01031149@3web.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-Id: <20010123012142.3450337B69C@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Jan 01 at 10:29, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken >> >Bolingbroke >> > >> >I've been running a mail/web/dns server as well as a NAT gateway on a >> >386dx40 with 8meg RAM for several years. One caveat is that >> >you need at >> >least 12 meg RAM to run sysinstall on more recent versions of >> >FreeBSD, but >> >I could do a buildworld on a faster machine, then installworld >> >on the '386 >> >just fine. It's recently been retired from those duties and >> >now serves as >> >just a fax server, but it's always done the job. DNS, mail >> >for a handful >> >of users, and a low traffic web site isn't all that demanding. >> > After all, >> >this machine was state-of-the art 10 years ago. :-) >> > >> >Ken >> > >> >> Even better, these older 386's and 486/33's don't need a CPU fan, >> so one less thing to get cockeyed. And I'd trust a system that >> has lasted 10 years and was still going strong more than a >> system with only 6 months on it. > >The only major problem we've run into is that those 10 year old >HDs tend to die. Still, all you need to do is upgrade a drive >in one of your current machines and donate the old small one to >the firewall machine. This has kept our 486sx33 with 8MB of ram >alive for much longer than the manufacturer intended. How do you guys get around the BIOS limitation regarding HDDs larger than .5Gig on these venerable machines? -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message