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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Minimum Requirements X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 36 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <ED6tME.53M@nonexistent.com> References: <5q62o8$cbr$1@usenet85.supernews.com> X-Trace: 868679797 25297 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 03:56:38 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44293 G. Gollinger (gollingj@ANTISPAMDEVICE.keystone.westminster.edu) wrote: : Hello. : : I'm thinking of dragging my old 386 out of the closet. Here's its specs: : : i386DX-25 MHz : 4 MB RAM (May go to 8 MB if needed) For FreeBSD,do it!! : 83 MB IDE HD (Another bottleneck) 60MB being needed for a "binary only system",yes. : 3½" 1.44 MB FD : VGA Card & monitor (generic) : Micro$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? Just a little bit. : Also, what's the best place to get it (ftp-wise) ? ftp.freebsd.org : If I get a better main computer, the one I'm at now (P5-100) will be a FreeBSD : machine. Would be a better FreeBSD machine...does it have SCSI?