From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 07:04:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA49C16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:04:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E839143D49 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iBS73w5n015155; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:03:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 28 Dec 2004 08:03:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <0I9E0097SB4OQF@a34-mta02.direcway.com> Message-ID: <863bxq7vl7.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, tommis@direcpc.com cc: Dan Thomas Subject: Re: What version X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:04:17 -0000 Dan Thomas writes: > A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only > has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you > send me the link to download it. First, you should realize that this is seriously outdated hardware. Installing any kind of modern software on it will be a challenge. You did not tell us if the machine has a network adapter, but it is probably safe to assume it does not, unless you can get a PCMCIA card which FreeBSD recognizes. If you can get the machine to boot with a network adapter (ethernet), you should be able to do a basic network install. If that does not work, your only option is via floppies, and you really do not want to do that. The process is described in the README.TXT file on your friendly neighborhood FreeBSD mirror somewhere near the boot floppy images. Summing up, unless this is the kind of challenge you were longing for in the first place, I don't think it's worth the effort. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"