From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 21 22:39:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB56B14F5B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09000; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:37:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199904220537.WAA09000@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: what to do with an old 486 In-Reply-To: <371EA101.85F2C30@cliffsworld.com> from cliff ainsworth III at "Apr 22, 99 00:09:37 am" To: freebsd@cliffsworld.com Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:37:02 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, cliff ainsworth III wrote: > I have this 486/33 with 20 megs of ram, a 125 meg hard drive and a > Netgear nic. I would like to use it as a dial out box for my lan. I have > a Netgear hub. I would love to use PicoBSD as my server and possibly be > able to dial back into it. Does Pico support multilink PPP like FreeBSD > does? OpenBSD and NetBSD don't support multilink yet. So I figured I > would try Pico before I just install FreeBSD on it. Any ideas or > suggested configs for it? Here's another question. since Pico is built > on 3.0 does it support SMP? I don't see a reference to it so I shall > assume not. No offense, but if you've got a 125 meg hard drive on the machine, why not just run FreeBSD. I think 2.2.8 would do you just fine, and you'd have access to a larger universe of fellow travellers if you needed help. I'd run PicoBSD on diskless (or floppy only) machines. I've run FreeBSD in as small a machine as a 386/20 laptop with an 80 meg hard drive and 8 meg of RAM. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message