I too retired a long serving oBSD/Pentium-Pro 200 back in November. As one door closes ... fyi ... openBSD 4.3 is still small-iron friendly.
I run an stock install42 and 43 (no "skinny" or other customizations), exclusive of the X and compiler sets, and it installs to and runs from a 256MB CF (compact flash), though at 11% free space it's a bit tight. Runs pf, ipsec, sshd, dhcpd and bind as forwarder-cache and only seems to want for 140MB of RAM. Good luck with the new puppy. -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Bochmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net... Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:00:22 +0100 Mailer: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...on Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:11:10PM +0300, Nickolay A. Burkov wrote: > Thanks for interesting story; very sadly. > Just out of curiosity, what hardware was it? Can't find a dmesg currently, but from memory the original setup was something like: Pentium-133, 32MB RAM. 4GB Quantum IDE HDD, 3Com 509(?) ISA. I think some 512k Trident VGA graphics card. As far as I remember, most of the stuff had been 2nd hand even in '98. Back then, that was more than enough to run a mailserver for maybe 100 users (sendmail, qpop, uucp), bind, an nntpcache, squid proxy, radius (for an Ascend Max E1 dialin router I still have at home), and the web server. A couple of years ago, the mainboard had been replaced by something with a K6-233 CPU as the old one had died. The harddisk survived to the end (although that may have been the component that finally failed - didn't have a chance to get access to the hardware yet). Alex.
