Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:57:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042255080.1481-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042246020.385-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Anyway, there are 386 PC's which simply can't store more RAM or which > > > have 4 * 1 MB and would need 4 * 4 MB, costing $ 50 (in my country). It > > > would be nice if these old PC's were usable, esp. for people to try > > > FreeBSD. You cannot, of course, sacrifice anything useful for that reason. > > > It would be nice though, if possible. > > > > The problem is the response of such a system. They could think FreeBSD > > is terrible and it is really their lack of RAM. If you advertise such > > a system, you also have to warn about the possible lack of > > performance. > > I have a spare system, which is exactly Intel 386DX-33 (overclocked to > 40MHz) with 4Mb of RAM. I'd happy to built a system which will work > 24-hours only as E-mail/new/FIDO gateway. Perfomance _is_ acceptable. I > have a 28.8K modem for dialing out. My experience proves that 386DX-40 > can handle 4 x 115200 NUL-modems + 10Mb Ethernet (well, it was Linux > RH-5.0 boxen running as IPX <-> IP <-> IPX gateway). > > I think that my 386 boxen will stay without any use ... > Anybody knows, is it possible to install NetBSD/OpenBSD on 4Mb of RAM ?! > [...] It isn't possible :-( Our only relief is 2.1.7.1. That works and installs ok on 4 MB. Marc -- Marc Schneiders marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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