From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 12:55:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F431065670 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahilliya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD44E8FC08 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so6597716iyj.13 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:55:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from :subject:date:to; bh=gNBTAD/QIqsdCorPm2bwN8oDsI0E2mw9oY9zzHTQ5b4=; b=RWjCClhs1Ikrw7tLDwgVj6aa56Qyc9pfrBV+o0X/kO0Cu35ck+GiYiXIY6t16Yd0Ta 9iqFOYv0sDjUFJGF2YkCsn+PNijn+tPvdnJLCZKYmPgc+H7WQjU6s/ZYfJnAAdB4zrWZ WvzkERWWdMjekDySykJULMy0q4LlE2icB440g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to; b=SWZKngWe6kmjOdymy06K7jwXWUG1/kG9SIBRgENELH9Qcmplq0ye8a7iFOJJzI0Lz8 zvxgxUo5JJet/PN6MiZI4Eskw1P7Unbz+pt2jEdk3KFwyR/bJvurH3LoIlATDHI4iHcv nEs+AsoK/gmbpw96h3sW8U45l+1Omo3dsu2kY= Received: by 10.231.113.214 with SMTP id b22mr3009607ibq.102.1300623810494; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.227.115.103] ([202.124.74.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm1098807ibb.47.2011.03.20.05.23.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:23:29 -0700 (PDT) References: <20110320123038.aabd603f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110320123038.aabd603f.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8C148a) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8C148a) From: Daniel Marsh Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:23:24 +1100 To: Polytropon Cc: aaron van caster , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:55:56 -0000 I'm sure he meant is there a video that shows the steps taken to complete th= e install. This will also list hardware requirements, but in short it does d= epend on what you want, I run BSD on a pentium m, 1ghz with 1gb ram and it r= uns sweet. You could run it on lesser hardware without a problem... Other than the hand book and reading the section on installation I'd have a l= ook in YouTube and see if there are any instructional videos. Cheers On 20/03/2011, at 22:30, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:52:59 -0500, aaron van caster wrote: >> Just would like to know what are the minimum system/hardware requirements= to >> run 8.2 OS and do to have a simple video showing installation? >=20 > This primarily depends on the codecs used for the video. > If there is much compression involved, requirements are > higher than to play uncompressed video (where mainly > the access speed to storage matters). For example, I've > had excellent results on a 300 MHz P2. The P4 with 2 GHz > I'm using at home plays everything at a good speed. > Maybe the ability of direct rendering is important, too, > so you chose your GPU according to good driver support > (ATI Radeon "old-fashioned" in my case). >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"