Re: minimum system requirements

From: mj001 (mj001_at_rogers.com)
Date: 05/22/03

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    Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 22:36:02 -0400
To: Zer0 <ellen.macisaac@ns.sympatico.ca>

    Zer0 wrote:
    > 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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    I used to run FreeBSD (2.1.5!) on a 486DX33 with 20 MB of
    memory, and a 200 MB disk. It would even run X Windows, but
    this was before the days of KDE or GNOME. As I remember, I
    did get it to run with 8 MB, including X-Windows, but it
    was pathetically slow. At 20 MB, the performance improved
    considerably.

    I think you will be fine if you don't need X-Windows.

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