Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:22:33 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, "Chuck Morris" <dude@1st.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: creating a workstation Message-ID: <001f01c0a462$bbe87d60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010303163857.O89396@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
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Actually, you probably could put a 2GB disk in this despite the BIOS problem and FreeBSD would be able to use all of it. FreeBSD only uses the BIOS to find the kernel when booting, after that it speaks directly to the disk electronics. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Crist J. Clark >Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 4:39 PM >To: Chuck Morris >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: creating a workstation > > >On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:56:24PM -0500, Chuck Morris wrote: >> I am interested in making an old 486 pentium upgrade machine >into a freeBSD workstation. It only has a 200MB hard drive. The >system bios will not recognize drives larger than 512MB. Could >you be so kind to tell me if I can run freeBSD using X11 on such a >small hard drive ? > >If you were very, very careful and only put the bare minimum of what >is required for FreeBSD and XFree86, you could probably fit it in >under 200 MB. But you could not add anything else. > >The machine would probably not be very usable as a workstation. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > >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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