From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 02:36:12 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 AD6DF16A4DA for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A22143D46 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:36:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1537000wxd for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:36:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LaQ8S6XzXDYHLFQ6iHu6mJVM58rSXq5fCNEWrkjJNl7gjyVpYcHjdP5mAPhHQsU2fzXeC+JvQnJoM7W2/3/hbXF8MxvFSvPuA0bJkgING8MxLNdwGLfWBsvRXVfr8AqafNS3EPvPH+zGjmIz/I4JQxAmjVdS1/HXGsA9KEFWGZc= Received: by 10.70.67.4 with SMTP id p4mr8468915wxa; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:36:11 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "David Kelly" In-Reply-To: <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Hunter Fuller hackmiester 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: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:36:12 -0000 On 8/27/06, David Kelly wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, 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? > > Haven't booted it in a long time but have FreeBSD 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 on a > 16 MHz 386sx16 with 4 MB of RAM. > > Has an 8 bit NE2000 NIC which required the NFS window be reduced to > 1k or so. I used this as a "portable FreeBSD netinstall box" back in > the bad old days before I could afford a CD-R, or even have CD-ROM on > many machines. > You could try FreeBSD 2.2.9! It was released April 1st 2006. "Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release." http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#adv So technically it's a current and fully supported release of FreeBSD!!! hahahaha! :-0 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/