Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:43:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010123134312.G414@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010123012142.3450337B69C@hub.freebsd.org>; from 01031149@3web.net on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:43:32PM -0700 References: <20010123012142.3450337B69C@hub.freebsd.org>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 17:43:32 -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > On 22 Jan 01 at 10:29, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: >> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> >>> Even better, these older 386's and 486/33's don't need a CPU fan, >>> so one less thing to get cockeyed. And I'd trust a system that >>> has lasted 10 years and was still going strong more than a >>> system with only 6 months on it. >> >> The only major problem we've run into is that those 10 year old >> HDs tend to die. Still, all you need to do is upgrade a drive >> in one of your current machines and donate the old small one to >> the firewall machine. This has kept our 486sx33 with 8MB of ram >> alive for much longer than the manufacturer intended. > > How do you guys get around the BIOS limitation regarding HDDs larger > than .5Gig on these venerable machines? Boot from the first 504 MB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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