From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 22:47: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5245837B698 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:46:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Switch-2.1.0/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f0M6kEs38798; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:46:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:46:14 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Jason Heibult Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3A6530A4@webmail.univnorthco.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jason Heibult wrote: > I was wondering what the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD are? I've been running a mail/web/dns server as well as a NAT gateway on a 386dx40 with 8meg RAM for several years. One caveat is that you need at least 12 meg RAM to run sysinstall on more recent versions of FreeBSD, but I could do a buildworld on a faster machine, then installworld on the '386 just fine. It's recently been retired from those duties and now serves as just a fax server, but it's always done the job. DNS, mail for a handful of users, and a low traffic web site isn't all that demanding. After all, this machine was state-of-the art 10 years ago. :-) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message