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Minimal spec unix box's

  • 26-10-2001 8:34am
    #1
    vac
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    whats the lowest spec box i could make to run freebsd 4.4 and get away with it ? ..

    <edited due to posters moronification>

    <edited due to moderators moronification>

    <edited due to continued poster idiocy... very little of real posters actual brain left>


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  • #2
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,414 ✭✭✭✭Trojan



    <edited due to posters moronification>

    <edited due to moderators moronification>

    lol

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  • #3
    moist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭moist


    Not sure what your origional post was... but...

    Depends on what you want to do...

    I have 4.4 running with X, nutscrape and random stuff on a PII 233 with 64M
    which is fine, although X and nutscrape use rather a lot of RAM :(

    A 486 should be grand for a minimal install.


  • #4
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    You could resurrect a 386 (dx?) with Linux or possibly even BSD I haven't investigated but...

    386dx
    3.8mb ram
    80mb disk
    40mhz
    ne2000 drone
    Slackware Linux 7.1 kernel 2.2.14(?)

    Running as a internet portal to lan with two desktops and a laptop is a pretty good use of otherwise junked hardware no?
    U might be able to compile a BSD kernel specifically for a box like above so maybe u could even get BSD onto basically the first 32bit machines???
    I'm not sure but bsd may need a disk slightly bigger than 80 mb sooo.


  • #5
    moist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭moist


    Originally posted by Typedef
    You could resurrect a 386 (dx?)

    U might be able to compile a BSD kernel specifically for a box like above

    Noooooo!!!!!
    A freind compiled FreeBSD (kernel and world) on a 486, and it took like 3 days or somthing :)


  • #6
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Should have no problem running bsd on a 486. If you are going to be using it for development work, I'd recommend a pentium of some sort, and a few hundred megs of hard drive space. If you will just be setting up an internet gateway/firewall, you will be able to get away with less. BSD 4.3 runs very happily on my p200 with 32 megs of ram, but the full install would not fit on a 500 meg drive, so I had to spread it across 2. :)


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