Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 01:43:00 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABOUT BSD Message-ID: <19981015014300.52339@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.0.67.19981014213310.00a4c390@genesis.ispace.com>; from Drew Baxter on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:45:07PM -0400 References: <4.1.0.67.19981012161419.00a69140@genesis.ispace.com> <19981014.212617.4279.1.needinfo@juno.com> <4.1.0.67.19981014213310.00a4c390@genesis.ispace.com>
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On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:45:07PM -0400, Drew Baxter woke me up to tell me: > > Most flavors of BSD (Open and Free, as well as BSDI (I think)) will run on > as little as a 386-16SX machine with 120 meg of drive and 4mb of RAM. > However, my FreeBSD unit is a PII-333 128MB/4.3gig. I'm going to take this opportunity to blow a little spieal ;) (Hey, it's -chat!) I just got through installing 2.1.5-RELEASE on a 386 DX/20 with 4 megs of ram and a 100 meg hard drive (appropriately named Musca). It was quite an experience, since it didn't really install over FTP and/or NFS right from the 2.1.5 CD. Hrmph. But I managed to coax it into working. Earlier today, I had to recompile the kernel on my workstation (ppro 180, 128 meg ram). It takes on average about 4, 4.5 minutes to do so. It's around 1.2 megs. Last night, I built a kernel on the 386. It's about 700k. It took about 6.5 hours to compile. YES, I like pain! Next goal: NFS mount a /usr/src and /usr/obj (no room on it's 76 meg / partition for THAT) and do a buildworld! I'm guessing it'll take less than 7 days, but more than 6. > Here is a generic 'minimum' breakdown.. This is what I think is the lowest > I'd run FreeBSD on, especially if I wanted to do XWindows. Right now I'm running X on my laptop. IBM ThinkPad 350C: 486 SLC/25, 12 megs RAM, C&T 512k video chipset. I'm at 8 bpp, 640x480. Still seeing if I can coax it up to 800x600, but I'm not holding out too much hope. 240 meg-ish hard drive. Not a hard workin' system, but I can run vi on the go. Oh, and I'm too lazy to buy a PCMCIA Ethernet card, so it's using a hardwired SLIP connection. I have a script to set the different IP etc for at work vs. at home. It's down to 19200 baud, and still gets silo overflows occasionally. Oh well. Just my little blurb for the day. New -chat thread: brag about your crappiest system. I have a 386 SX/16 laptop that I need to cobble up a power supply for, but if I can I'm going to see if I can get it going, just for the heck of it... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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