Re: Installing FreeBSD on old comp

From: Matt Pearce (matt_at_00pearceits.com.au)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:01:47 +1100

SD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking of installing the latest FreeBSD 5.3, on two old
> machines. One is a DELL L466cx with about 8GB hard-disk and 64MB ram,
> it's a PIII. I can upgrade the RAM a bit. The other machine has a
> similar config. I am only interested in learning and modifying the
> kernel. So I am not even interested in X-Windows. Will 5.3 work on
> these machines?

I'm currently building my new server on a spare PIII 450Mhz 128mb ram
and an 80G hdd, (although 8 is fine if you partition it right) with no
drama's.

> Here's the other question: Can I hook these machines into a small LAN
> and use the laptop to work on them using SSH? I have a laptop with
> WinXP. How do I go about this? I am interested in programming and have
> poor sysadm skills....hope you guys can help.

Yes you can use something like putty to ssh into your server and work on
it remotely, this is what most people do and in fact my main server
hasnt had a monitor attached to it for 6+ months.

Matt.

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