From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 10 12:05:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1136616A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:05:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1747F43D1F for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:05:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id ED80137E4B; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:05:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.180]) by av13-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E095F37E42 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:05:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9673A37E43 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:05:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 32173 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Oct 2004 12:05:31 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:05:30 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Wayne Thanatos McBroom Message-ID: <20041010120530.GA32161@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Wayne Thanatos McBroom , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <000c01c4aebd$09ff6140$2275613f@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000c01c4aebd$09ff6140$2275613f@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Very Old Computer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:05:34 -0000 On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:33:55AM -0500, Wayne Thanatos McBroom wrote: > I got a hold of a Duracom 486/SX. Which FreeBSD do you think would work on > it? Just trying to replace the 3.11 system on it. Thanks. Later..... FreeBSD 4.10 should work fine (assuming you have enough RAM.) Until a few months ago I ran FreeBSd 4.10-stable on a 386sx/33 with 8MB RAM. It worked fine (but it wasn't exactly fast.) 8MB RAM is enough to run 4.10, but I think you need at least 12MB to install it. (I believe the last version of FreeBSD which could be installed on only 8MB RAM was 3.3.) FreeBSD 5.x has dropped support for FPU-less systems, and since the difference between 486sx and a regular 486 is that the 486sx lacks an FPU, I don't think FreeBSD 5.x will work on your machine. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se