Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:44:32 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "hackmiester \(Hunter Fuller\)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM Message-ID: <20060827214432.GA10427@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com>
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:35:51PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz > processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of > UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, > freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run with > enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will just be to > prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions? Take a look at NetBSD. It usually works fairly well on older hardware. Otherwise I do know for a fact that FreeBSD 3.1 will install and run just fine on such a machine. (Later 3.x and 4.x versions of FreeBSD will also run fine on that machine, but somewhere along that line (I think it was around 3.4 but I am not certain) the minimum memory needed to *install* FreeBSD increased to 12MB.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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