Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:37:01 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Cecil" <xeys_00@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEPMFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com>
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This is fine for FreeBSD 4.11, yes it will take a long time to build a kernel, but not more than 24 hours. You also get some valuable lessons in space planning on a hard disk. The original PDP-11 only had 64k (that's k, not meg) of ram I believe. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Cecil >Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:16 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? > > >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. > >Xeys > > > >____________________________________________________ >Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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