From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 21:44:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3F07B16A4DD for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D9943D7E for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:44:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44EDA0BC000BAB3B for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:44:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 45244 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2006 23:44:32 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2006 23:44:32 +0200 Received: (qmail 10460 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Aug 2006 23:44:32 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:44:32 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: "hackmiester \(Hunter Fuller\)" Message-ID: <20060827214432.GA10427@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM 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, 27 Aug 2006 21:44:38 -0000 On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:35:51PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz > processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of > UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, > freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run with > enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will just be to > prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions? Take a look at NetBSD. It usually works fairly well on older hardware. Otherwise I do know for a fact that FreeBSD 3.1 will install and run just fine on such a machine. (Later 3.x and 4.x versions of FreeBSD will also run fine on that machine, but somewhere along that line (I think it was around 3.4 but I am not certain) the minimum memory needed to *install* FreeBSD increased to 12MB.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se