Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:59:32 -0400 From: Zer0 <ellen.macisaac@ns.sympatico.ca> To: camaleon <camaleon@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minimum system requirements Message-ID: <3ECBB074.9010601@ns.sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <002001c31f98$32259640$9600000a@medkat> References: <002001c31f98$32259640$9600000a@medkat>
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camaleon wrote: >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 :) > Take a look at http://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html I can't as yet vouch for the feasibility of this as I have yet to try it myself but it might be a nudge in the right direction.
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