Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:26:43 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM Message-ID: <47E43A34-8468-44D9-A57F-FBBCF6C81D8D@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com>
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On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, 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? Haven't booted it in a long time but have FreeBSD 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 on a 16 MHz 386sx16 with 4 MB of RAM. Has an 8 bit NE2000 NIC which required the NFS window be reduced to 1k or so. I used this as a "portable FreeBSD netinstall box" back in the bad old days before I could afford a CD-R, or even have CD-ROM on many machines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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