Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:25:56 -0400 From: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine Message-ID: <6ae50c2d1003161225t161e5918n32e52f4618231ee5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com> References: <3351212956-2078109201@intranet.com.mx> <4B99CE33.6070109@ibctech.ca> <20100316192152.GA55366@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wr= ote: > >> > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III >> > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. > > I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. > > ... > >> Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process >> objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of >> assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. > > 2 GB for / seems excessive to me. =C2=A01 GB should be plenty. =C2=A0I ha= ve 500 > MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2: > > Filesystem =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Size =C2=A0 =C2=A0Used =C2=A0 Avail Capacity =C2= =A0Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a =C2=A0 =C2=A0496M =C2=A0 =C2=A0144M =C2=A0 =C2=A0312M =C2=A0 = =C2=A031% =C2=A0 =C2=A0/ > > Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to > use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard > drive space is a bit academic. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2 and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :) --=20 http://alexus.org/
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