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From: gollingj@ANTISPAMDEVICE.keystone.westminster.edu (G. Gollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Minimum Requirements
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:28:44 GMT
Organization: The USENET Tourette's Syndrome Group
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Hello.
I'm thinking of dragging my old 386 out of the closet. Here's its specs:
i386DX-25 MHz
4 MB RAM (May go to 8 MB if needed)
83 MB IDE HD (Another bottleneck)
3½" 1.44 MB FD
VGA Card & monitor (generic)
Micro$oft mouse
101 key keyboard
1 Parallel, 2 Serial ports (COM1 has mouse, tho)
Sound Blaster (old 8-bit)
Panasonic KX-P1124i printer (24 pin dot matrix)
No CD-ROM.
Now that you've stopped lauging, how much FreeBSD (if any) can go onto it?
Also, what's the best place to get it (ftp-wise) ?
If I get a better main computer, the one I'm at now (P5-100) will be a FreeBSD
machine.
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G. Gollinger, Grand Duke of Ni
Advocate of USENET Tourette's Syndrome
gollingj {at} keystone {daught} westminster {daught} edu