From owner-freebsd-small Wed Apr 21 21:15:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799E31593C for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA03460; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:43:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA86269; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:43:16 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:43:16 +091800 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd@cliffsworld.com Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what to do with an old 486 Message-ID: <19990422134315.N54567@freebie.lemis.com> References: <371EA101.85F2C30@cliffsworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <371EA101.85F2C30@cliffsworld.com>; from cliff ainsworth III on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 12:09:37AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 April 1999 at 0:09:37 -0400, cliff ainsworth III wrote: > I have this 486/33 with 20 megs of ram, a 125 meg hard drive and a > Netgear nic. I would like to use it as a dial out box for my lan. I have > a Netgear hub. I would love to use PicoBSD as my server and possibly be > able to dial back into it. Does Pico support multilink PPP like FreeBSD > does? OpenBSD and NetBSD don't support multilink yet. So I figured I > would try Pico before I just install FreeBSD on it. Any ideas or > suggested configs for it? Here's another question. since Pico is built > on 3.0 does it support SMP? I don't see a reference to it so I shall > assume not. PicoBSD will support whatever you can cram into the disk. But why bother? It's much easier just to install FreeBSD on the hard disk. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message