From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 12:35:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD4014D1B for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixhelp@home.com) Received: from nitelife.dyndns.org ([24.64.161.143]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990711193531.KNMM7623.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@nitelife.dyndns.org>; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:35:31 -0700 Content-Length: 703 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990710202540.8781.rocketmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:34:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob S To: John Trivedi Subject: RE: Will it work on my PC? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jul-99 John Trivedi wrote: > > FreeBSD, > I have been trying for months to find a new OS for my old PC. I > came across your web-site and saw the configurations needed to run > FreeBSD. I have an old 486SX, 25MHz, 4Mb of RAM which I plan to > upgrade, and a 170Mb hard disk. Do you think that any version of UNIX > will work on my computer? Any response will be greatly appreciated. > Thank you. > > Johnny. Older versions of FreeBSD and Linux will run nicely on your hardware, bump the ram to 8 meg (16 or more would be better) and a 500 mb disk would be just nifty. minix will run on the hardware now if you just want a unix to play with...but minix really sucks. Regards Rob S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message