Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:21:52 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine Message-ID: <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca>
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On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wrote: > > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III > > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. ... > Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process > objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of > assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. 2 GB for / seems excessive to me. 1 GB should be plenty. I have 500 MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 496M 144M 312M 31% / Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard drive space is a bit academic. Regards Andrew
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