Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@cray.com> Cc: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using a 386 with 8 Mb RAM and 300Mb HD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818175012.25013C-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980818152012.109623A-100000@sooner>
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For the record, someone also suggested me: More comments below... Forwarded message: ----------------------------------------- >From ? Tue Aug 18 17:50:30 1998 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:51:08 -0400 From: ? To: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: Using a 386 with 8 Mb RAM and 300Mb HD Why buy anything? Hook it up as a router for when you can find a dusty old P75 ore something. Or, maybe you could use it to check your email while your regular computer is compiling code. At leased then you would only have to find a serial connector of some sort. I personally use my old 386 for compiling small java apps that I'm not in a hurry for. That way I can send some small peices that I know are finished through the 386 while I am still working on my Pentuim. I cheat though. I have an old monochrome monitor on it. You should be able to access it as an X-server without a problem though.... Just an idea. ---------------------------------------------- Here I go: On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jeffrey Dunitz wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:43:41 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> > >To: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > >Subject: Using a 386 with 8 Mb RAM and 300Mb HD > > > >What can I do with this dinosaur? > >Will minimal freebsd install take too much space? > > > >I know I'll have to buy more rom... (I don't even have a keyboard nor a > >screen!!!) I intend to connect it to my PC (166 Mhz, 32MB RAM, 3,2Gb, 33.6 > >Mdem, CDROM, etc...) running FreeBSD227R and win95. > > > >I'd like to know what hardware I should buy. > > Actually a 386 with 8 megs is quite a useable configuration for > many things. You might want to get more RAM, but it depends what > you want to do. > > 300 megs is plenty of disk space for the base system with X, some > apps, and the compiler and tools. Ah! This is good! I thought that only the sources were about 250Mb? > Such a machine would be a good internal web server for a small network > or a great PPP router/firewall for home. I ran linux on a similar machine > for a long time, and was very happy with it--I was running X, too. > FreeBSD will be as good or better. Great idea! > So toss a network card in the 386 and go. You probably don't even need a > monitor. What hardware will I need? Will it be costly? > Use the monitor from your other machine to configure and install > the 386, then toss the machine in the closet and forget about it. I do intend to get a used monitor for it (and a keyboard!!!!), ya know... play network games...:) > Alternatively, do it the other way around: make your 386 an Xterm, and > toss your big pentium box in the closet. :) What (dis)advantage will it get me? > - -- -- --- --- --- ---- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ------| -------------- > Jeffrey Dunitz (orpheus@cray.com) 612-683-7266 | it's hard times > Information Services <http://wwwis.cray.com/~orpheus>; | befallen the > ===== Cray Research, now Silicon Graphics = == === === =====| sole survivors. Thanks a lot, and sorry if you I have stupid questions... Spidey How 'bout a little ride through your own world? http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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