Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 22:36:02 -0400 From: mj001 <mj001@rogers.com> To: Zer0 <ellen.macisaac@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minimum system requirements Message-ID: <3ECC3792.9040502@rogers.com> References: <002001c31f98$32259640$9600000a@medkat> <3ECBB074.9010601@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Zer0 wrote: > camaleon wrote: > >> Hi, I'm new here, but right away I do have a question >> that can lead to many answers (or even none at all ;) >> >> I am considering installing FreeBSD on a very old machine, >> but I'm not sure if that will succeed. The reason for this >> is fun (to begin with) and perhaps later a very modest >> internet server in a small home network connected to the >> internet via a multiport ADSL modem. Another reason is >> using an operating system that has staying power and has >> proven itself in the past and that can be configuered both >> as a webserver and as an email server. >> >> The system is a 486DX2 66 MHz, with (only) 14 Mbs of RAM, >> a (recent) cd-rom drive and a harddisk of (only) 325 Mb. >> There are two floppy drives, a 3.5 inch and a 5.25 inch. >> The videocard is a Western Digital with a something-C33 >> chipset (if I remember well, couldn't find the manual >> right now). There is a SB 16 AWE-32 PnP soundcard, a >> 3Com 3C509b ethernet card and an Edimax ethernet card >> installed, both ethernet cards can be set to either PnP-modus >> or non-PnP-modus. >> >> I have the experience of installing Slackware on this >> machine, allthough the hard drive space was larger in the >> past, where a second drive of respectively 421 Mb (and >> Slackware 3.6 and 4.0), 1,5 Gb (and Slackware 7.0), and 20 Gb >> (with Slackware 7.0 and 7.1) used to be installed >> (I want to remove the 20 Gb drive to use it in another >> machine). I did configure a small webserver with apache on this >> configuration(s) and an email server with sendmail. >> >> Will it be feasable with this little hard drive capacity and >> this little memory resources? >> >> - camaleon :) >> > Take a look at http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html > I can't as yet vouch for the feasibility of this as I have yet to try it > myself but it might be a nudge in the right direction. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I used to run FreeBSD (2.1.5!) on a 486DX33 with 20 MB of memory, and a 200 MB disk. It would even run X Windows, but this was before the days of KDE or GNOME. As I remember, I did get it to run with 8 MB, including X-Windows, but it was pathetically slow. At 20 MB, the performance improved considerably. I think you will be fine if you don't need X-Windows.
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