Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:24:39 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: we'uns <mpj900@optonline.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running FreeBSD on older machines (was: Re: size) Message-ID: <20011125102439.B13393@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <001a01c175cb$59ccf620$6401a8c0@office>; from mpj900@optonline.net on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:07:58AM -0500 References: <001a01c175cb$59ccf620$6401a8c0@office>
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Welcome aboard Paul. * we'uns <mpj900@optonline.net> [011125 10:07] wrote: > Greetings. I got this email address out of the FreeBSD Newsletter, > issue#1. I'm not sure if you're the right guys to address such a > query to so if this seems out of place I apologize, but perhaps > you can direct it to the right folks. The most appropriate list for such questions is 'questions@freebsd.org' this list deals more with people working on FreeBSD development. You also probably want to set your mailer to wrap lines at 70 characters. > I've got an old P1 135 (I think, may be 125, can't remember), > 1.7G HD, 32M RAM...in short, a dinosaur. I want to experiment with > FreeBSD and would like to do so on a machine that is non-critical > so I have time to learn it without being under the gun. I was > reading in the newsletter that Dave Filo was using BSD on an old > (probably wasn't old back in '97, haha!) P100, 32M RAM machine and > that the release number for BSD then was 2.2 STABLE (what is > "stable", or was that an aside by the author?). I've seen FreeBSD > releases in the somewhat recent past at 3.4 I believe, and it has > me wondering: will an older machine like mine will be large enough > to handle the newer releases? FreeBSD should run ok on the older machine that you mention. You haven't given too many specs, but if it's a plain-jane 100mhz Pentium it should work fine. Have a look at this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html it should give you a jumpstart on installing over the net, if you want media check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html You want to get version 4.4 of FreeBSD, that is the most recent 'stable' version. And yes, we do call it 'stable', the reason is that we do development mostly on a newer version of FreeBSD, when that version (5.0) becomes ready it becomes the 'stable' version and only bugfixes will go into it. > Thanks much for taking time out to consider this email. 'Hope > you guys had a great Thanksgiving and will have a great holiday > season. Same to you, have a great holiday. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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