From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 10:42:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.203.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533C714D01 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28641; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:39:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian X-Sender: bri@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net To: Kenny Drobnack Cc: Johnny Trivedi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC In-Reply-To: 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 I run a 486-100 with 32mb without problem, has a 540mb disk though. Bri On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Kenny Drobnack wrote: > FreeBSD 3.2 is the most recent. I think the minimum install is 60 megs. > You could do that and then add whatever you feel like. What may be a > problem is the fact that the FreeBSD install program needs at least 5 megs > to run, not sure how much the system needs to boot up. > I originally tried FreeBSD on a 486 66 MhZ with 16 megs of RAM. > It actually seemed to run better than a Windows box Pentium 100 with 32 > megs. The exception was trying to run any memory hogging apps. For > example, Netscape took a while to come up, and forget doing much of > anything else with Netscape was running. Also, the imlib seemed to be one > big swap file (imlib.c). I got "out of swap space" every time I tried to > compile... In other words, upgrade to 32 megs of RAM, and if possible, get > a bigger hard drive, if you want to install any extras.. > > > I have been trying to step in to some sort of *nix environment but am > > not too sure that I want to try it on my current PC. I do, however, > > have another PC. It is a 486 with 25 MHz, only 4 MB of ram, 170 Mb Hard > > disk. The only question I have is that will a FULL version of FreeBSD > > run on my PC. I don't want to learn some version that is outdated. > > What other resources can I turn to for questions. I have already > > checked out some reading material on amazon.com but before I purchase > > anything I want to know if the OS will work on my PC. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > --------------------------------------*******************--------------------------------------- > | | > | Kenny Drobnack | > | Student at Mount Vernon Nazarene College | > | Major: Computer Science | > | Minor: Math | > | Working on: Computer Internship at the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County | > | | > ------------------------------------*********************--------------------------------------- > > Linux Demo Day '99 > One Step Closer to World Domination > One Day, > One World, > One Cool Penguin. > X X > L IIIIIIIIII N N U U X X > L I NN N U U X X > L I N N N U U X X > L I N N N U U X > L I N N N U U X X > L I N N N U U X X > L I N N N U U X X > LLLLL IIIIIIIIII N NN UUU X X > > --------------------------------------***************************------------------------------ > > > > > 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