Re: minimum system requirements

From: Zer0 (ellen.macisaac_at_ns.sympatico.ca)
Date: 05/21/03

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 12:59:32 -0400
To: camaleon <camaleon@xs4all.nl>

    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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