Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:55:00 +0200 From: "camaleon" <camaleon@xs4all.nl> To: "freebsd-newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: minimum system requirements Message-ID: <002001c31f98$32259640$9600000a@medkat>
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Hi, I'm new here, but right away I do have a question that can lead to many answers (or even none at all ;) I am considering installing FreeBSD on a very old machine, but I'm not sure if that will succeed. The reason for this is fun (to begin with) and perhaps later a very modest internet server in a small home network connected to the internet via a multiport ADSL modem. Another reason is using an operating system that has staying power and has proven itself in the past and that can be configuered both as a webserver and as an email server. The system is a 486DX2 66 MHz, with (only) 14 Mbs of RAM, a (recent) cd-rom drive and a harddisk of (only) 325 Mb. There are two floppy drives, a 3.5 inch and a 5.25 inch. The videocard is a Western Digital with a something-C33 chipset (if I remember well, couldn't find the manual right now). There is a SB 16 AWE-32 PnP soundcard, a 3Com 3C509b ethernet card and an Edimax ethernet card installed, both ethernet cards can be set to either PnP-modus or non-PnP-modus. I have the experience of installing Slackware on this machine, allthough the hard drive space was larger in the past, where a second drive of respectively 421 Mb (and Slackware 3.6 and 4.0), 1,5 Gb (and Slackware 7.0), and 20 Gb (with Slackware 7.0 and 7.1) used to be installed (I want to remove the 20 Gb drive to use it in another machine). I did configure a small webserver with apache on this configuration(s) and an email server with sendmail. Will it be feasable with this little hard drive capacity and this little memory resources? - camaleon :)
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