Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:24:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@cray.com> To: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using a 386 with 8 Mb RAM and 300Mb HD Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980818152012.109623A-100000@sooner> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818133212.8761A-100000@outpost.nada.org>
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote: >Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:43:41 -0400 (EDT) >From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> >To: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Subject: Using a 386 with 8 Mb RAM and 300Mb HD > >What can I do with this dinosaur? >Will minimal freebsd install take too much space? > >I know I'll have to buy more rom... (I don't even have a keyboard nor a >screen!!!) I intend to connect it to my PC (166 Mhz, 32MB RAM, 3,2Gb, 33.6 >Mdem, CDROM, etc...) running FreeBSD227R and win95. > >I'd like to know what hardware I should buy. Actually a 386 with 8 megs is quite a useable configuration for many things. You might want to get more RAM, but it depends what you want to do. 300 megs is plenty of disk space for the base system with X, some apps, and the compiler and tools. Such a machine would be a good internal web server for a small network or a great PPP router/firewall for home. I ran linux on a similar machine for a long time, and was very happy with it--I was running X, too. FreeBSD will be as good or better. So toss a network card in the 386 and go. You probably don't even need a monitor. Use the monitor from your other machine to configure and install the 386, then toss the machine in the closet and forget about it. Alternatively, do it the other way around: make your 386 an Xterm, and toss your big pentium box in the closet. :) > >Any suggestions or comments is welcome! > >Spidey > >How 'bout a little ride through your own world? >http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > - -- -- --- --- --- ---- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ------| -------------- Jeffrey Dunitz (orpheus@cray.com) 612-683-7266 | it's hard times Information Services <http://wwwis.cray.com/~orpheus>; | befallen the ===== Cray Research, now Silicon Graphics = == === === =====| sole survivors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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