Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:24:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Aaron Nadeau <fallinangl@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why won't this thing work? Message-ID: <19981205112455.H603@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.981204144119.-94821A-100000@direct-source.com.direct-source.com>; from Rick Hamell on Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 02:43:06PM -0800 References: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> <Pine.WNT.3.95.981204144119.-94821A-100000@direct-source.com.direct-source.com>
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On Friday, 4 December 1998 at 14:43:06 -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: >> hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers. Both >> of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10. I got them for free from my >> school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box. If you could >> help me get these things running I would really appricate it. > > It's possible that they're not fast enough to run FreeBSD... The > minimum recommendations are 486sx-25 or so. Where do you get this idea from? > That being said people have run 386 fine. Indeed. You should be very careful about statements you make. People could believe them. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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