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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Minimum Requirements
Date: 13 Jul 1997 20:48:37 GMT
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In article <ED6tME.53M@nonexistent.com>,
	le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes:
> 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.
> 
>: Now that you've stopped lauging, how much FreeBSD (if any) can go onto it?
> 
> Just a little bit.
> 

You will need the 8 meg for installation at least.  After that you
might be able to take it out and still run okay.

I think you would not be able to fit X, or be able to build a
kernel.  Still, I bet you'll be surpised at what you _can_ do.  It
will play Ularn like lightning.

You will also have to borrow another disk drive for the installation.
83meg is not enough to hold a DOS partition to install from and a
partition to install to.  I don't see anything else in your config
that would be a suitable installation medium.

Many readers are keen to hear about running FreeBSD on teensy
hardware so keep posting.

Good luck!

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON