Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:57:46 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Ed Kern" <dag@dag.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 Message-ID: <011c01bfed2e$86e227b0$b7430ace@hacker> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131634300.71264-100000@207-103-71-248-cpadsl.voicenet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Kern" <dag@dag.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Installation on a 486-2/66 > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Chris Fedde wrote: > > > I'm interested to see that you are attempting to install FreeBSD on such > > old hardware. I have a few motherboards like that laying around and have > > concidered using them as say dedicated home automation controlers. > > I've got an old 486DX/33 running 4.0-STABLE with a 2 GB drive and 40 megs > of ram. It's used primarily as a shell server for pine and irc, and it > also hosts a few small web sites and an ftp site. > > It's amazing what you can do with some old hardware and FreeBSD. > > I started with 16 megs, but it was paging out quite a bit. I picked up > some cheap, used 4 MB 30-pin SIMMS on eBay, and now it's happier. > > `make buildworld` takes about two days, though.. > > Ed. > > K....well I win the old hardware award then, cause I have 2.1.5 running on a 386DX33 with coprocessor and 8 whole megs of ram....(worth a king's ransom in its day) A kernel rebuild is a weekend affair. I don't use this box for anything but kicks, but performance is somewhere between terrible and unbearable. (You should see what X does to it!) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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