Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:29:32 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "'Ken Bolingbroke'" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, "'Jason Heibult'" <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3A6C51DC.1C70B158@mitre.org> References: <011001c08452$7118a880$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken > >Bolingbroke > > > >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 > > > > Even better, these older 386's and 486/33's don't need a CPU fan, > so one less thing to get cockeyed. And I'd trust a system that > has lasted 10 years and was still going strong more than a > system with only 6 months on it. The only major problem we've run into is that those 10 year old HDs tend to die. Still, all you need to do is upgrade a drive in one of your current machines and donate the old small one to the firewall machine. This has kept our 486sx33 with 8MB of ram alive for much longer than the manufacturer intended. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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