From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 0:26:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550637B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0M8Pve14346; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:26:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <00a801c0844c$fdeca820$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Micke Josefsson" , "Jeremiah Gowdy" Cc: , "Jason Heibult" References: Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:26:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The 386 bit is OK & maybe even a 120Mb hard drive for a bare minimum command line only 3.x installation, but as Jeremiah stated, 200Mb is smallest practical for 4.x & then only for command line systems. I dunno about install of 3.x or 4.x with either 4 or 8Mb RAM .... there have been quite a number of postings from people who have attempted that but I've yet to see that one has succeeded ...... at least 12Mb appears to be necessary & 16Mb is a more realistic minimum. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micke Josefsson" To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" Cc: ; "Jason Heibult" Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD > > On 22-Jan-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > >> I was wondering what the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD are? > > > > A 386sx 16mhz, either 4 or 8 megs ram, and probably a 100 meg hard drive. > > You'll have problems with a harddisk smaller than 120 Megs. But in any way such > a system has no man pages, and you can't add ports and have no space for your > own files even. A more practical smallest HD is 200Megs. > > > > > > > Yes, I'm serious. Of course I wouldn't recommend such a computer. More > > useful information would be: I run my Pentium 75mhz laptop with 32 megs ram > > under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. No problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se > > This message was sent by XFMail > running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE > ---------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message