From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 19:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155A937B69C for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A4D116AB70; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:43:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:43:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010123134312.G414@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010123012142.3450337B69C@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010123012142.3450337B69C@hub.freebsd.org>; from 01031149@3web.net on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:43:32PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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