From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 8 13:06:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 337C116A41F for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:06:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12E543D4C for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:06:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53D35EE7; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:06:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36840-06; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955A45C54; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42CE7A48.70107@mac.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:06:16 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cecil References: <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:06:24 -0000 Cecil wrote: > I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a > freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a > 486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram > though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect > out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box > only to learn perl, python, C++ and some other stuff > on. You don't have enough disk space to fit Perl, Python, and a full FreeBSD distribution. The CPU is going to be slow but workable, but 20MB of RAM is going to be very marginal, too. I'm not sure the installer will be able to run, although if you can get the disk built out, FreeBSD will run. -- -Chuck