From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 11:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mission.mvnc.edu (mission.mvnc.edu [149.143.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533D31506F for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu) Received: from localhost (kdrobnac@localhost) by mission.mvnc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA21566; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:21:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack Reply-To: Kenny Drobnack To: Johnny Trivedi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC In-Reply-To: <37B06A03.79AB5E93@corecomm.net> 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 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 I don't want to learn some version that is outdated.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