minimum system requirements

From: camaleon (camaleon_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 05/21/03

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    To: "freebsd-newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:55:00 +0200

    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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