Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:21:52 -0700 From: dmp@aracnet.com To: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HW requirements Message-ID: <37CF14A0.32D99BBC@aracnet.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19990902151216.00733f9c@slider>
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Michael Rothenberg wrote: > I have asked my company cohorts to bring in all their unused computer > equip. I plan on making a BSD only box out of all the junk I collect. I > already have collected a P 166 and a few misguided motherboards. Is there > anything in particular that I should not plan on using in terms of old > periferals? ie 1x CD ROMs, hard drives under 250MB, ISA bus cards (though I > might just spring for a new motherboard for the 166 to avoid this), old > 3.5" floppy drives....?? > > My plan is to hook the BSD box to my new cable modem and have it provide > access to the net for my home network. For that use only, what kind of > memory should I expect ot put into the BSD box? No less than 8MB. I put together a gateway/firewall box using a P100, 16MB of RAM, a 2x IDE CD-ROM, no floppy, and a 210MB hard drive. I only needed the the bin, man pages, and kernel source packages, and I've still got more than 50MB of disk left out of the 180MB I had. I didn't see any need to install the ports tree since this box will pretty much just sit in the corner untouched. Normal operation seldom sees more than .01 load. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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