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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: Minimum Requirements
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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?