Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:45:17 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "JOHN MUELLER" <asjwm2@uaa.alaska.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <00e601c14492$2dff3ae0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <3BAE62D4.1070400@uaa.alaska.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of JOHN MUELLER > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 6:32 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Slow PC and FreeBSD > > Thanks again for the help....OK, first question .. will FreeBSD run > on a 75 or 90 Mhz pentium ? I probably should give them to the Salvation > army, but.... I get to the "extracting bin into / directory" progress > bar and it hangs at about 4%. With my limited experience, I still > suspect the CPU is the cause of the hang. This one had a primitive > Win98 on it. I guess the primary question is, "What is the minimum > processor speed required to run FreeBSD ?" > (target practice) From personal experience, I've run FreeBSD successfully on a 486-33 before. Pentium 75 or 90 (as you mentioned before) should work fine. How much memory is installed in these machines? You need 12 MB to install FreeBSD, but 8 MB to run it (although, you'd get better results with more memory, obviously). Also, check your hard drives and your CD-Rom drive. You may have a problem there. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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