RE: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66?
From: Ted Mittelstaedt (tedm_at_toybox.placo.com)
Date: 07/10/05
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To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:18:32 -0700
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 50350 37954 8368 82% /
/dev/ad0s1e 436206 178144 223166 44% /usr
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
$ uname -a
FreeBSD xxx.xxxxx.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25
22:47:12 GMT 2004
root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
$
Granted, it's FBSD 4.10 not 4.11, but they are similar enough.
As I said, it is just in knowing how to set it up. One of the keys
is not installing /usr/ports. While the ports system is great for
setting things up fast, it is a space hog. If you download and
compile the utilities by hand, it uses a lot less space, plus you
learn how the system actually works as opposed to learning how to
flip switches on a black box.
I use /usr/ports quite a lot but I didn't when I was learning.
Ted
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Garrett Cooper
>Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 2:31 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66?
>
>
>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>>This is fine for FreeBSD 4.11, yes it will take a long
>>time to build a kernel, but not more than 24 hours. You
>>also get some valuable lessons in space planning on a
>>hard disk.
>>
>>The original PDP-11 only had 64k (that's k, not meg) of
>>ram I believe.
>>
>>Ted
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Cecil
>>>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:16 AM
>>>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>>Subject: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66?
>>>
>>>I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a
>>>freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a
>>>486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram
>>>though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect
>>>out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box
>>>only to learn perl, python, C++ and some other stuff
>>>on.
>>>
>>>Xeys
>>>
>>>
> Good luck fitting everything on there. You can get FreeBSD on 250
>maybe, but that's just the base system. After installing Python/any GNU
>stuff or sources, you may run into disk space issues. Then again, you
>can plan on having your swap slice being small (~50 Mb if you wish).
>Email me personally, if you want any DRAM because I have some laying
>around that you might want from a 486 ;).
>-Garrett
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