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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:04:37 +0100 (CET)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Heibult <heib2246@blue.univnorthco.edu>
Subject:   Re: Minimum system requirements for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010122090437.mj@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <006d01c0843d$40568f60$aa240018@cx443070b>

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On 22-Jan-01 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>> I was wondering what the minimum system requirements for FreeBSD are?
> 
> A 386sx 16mhz, either 4 or 8 megs ram, and probably a 100 meg hard drive.

You'll have problems with a harddisk smaller than 120 Megs. But in any way such
a system has no man pages, and you can't add ports and have no space for your
own files even. A more practical smallest HD is 200Megs.



> 
> Yes, I'm serious.  Of course I wouldn't recommend such a computer.  More
> useful information would be: I run my Pentium 75mhz laptop with 32 megs ram
> under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE.  No problem.
> 
> 
> 
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