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From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing on an old 486...
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:42:50 -0500
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I have successfully used as new as 4.2 (and I believe 4.3) on 486s with 8MB 
of RAM and 325MB drives without a problem. They make dandy 
routers/firewalls/nameservers and even mailservers for small-to-mid. I have 
heard tales of RedHat (yes, I know...) running their corporate email on a 
486. Doubtless that one has more than than 8MB. And you can run as large a 
harddrive as you want as a slave regardless of the BIOS. FreeBSD will see it 
properly.

Take the minimal install option to begin with and load what packages you need 
afterwards. But don't think you can run X. You can't.

And. This maybe should really be on -questions. But...


<snip>
> > > >
> > > > - Cyrex 486 DX2/66MhZ
> > > > - 8 Megs RAM
> > > > - RealTec clone network card
> > > > - 8 Gigs hard drive space (upgraded from 400 Meg)
> > > > - 4x CDROM drive
> > > > - Cirrus Logic VGA card
> > > > - External 56K modem
> > > >

There shouldn't be a problem with this stuff. I've run with less.

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