On 7/8/05, Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a
> freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a
> 486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram
> though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect
> out of this machine? I plan to run i
Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
On 7/8/05, Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a
freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a
486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram
though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect
out of this machine
Cecil wrote:
I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a
freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a
486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram
though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect
out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box
only to learn perl, pyth
If it is only for cli
and learning programming,
I'd suggest to install FreeBSD 4.11.
All you need (gcc, perl, python, vim/emacs)
is readyly available from
the original install cd #1.
I had a comparable box running as
a samba fileserver under FreeBSD and
even could run a "make world"
on it.
You ne
This is fine for FreeBSD 4.11, yes it will take a long
time to build a kernel, but not more than 24 hours. You
also get some valuable lessons in space planning on a
hard disk.
The original PDP-11 only had 64k (that's k, not meg) of
ram I believe.
Ted
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
This is fine for FreeBSD 4.11, yes it will take a long
time to build a kernel, but not more than 24 hours. You
also get some valuable lessons in space planning on a
hard disk.
The original PDP-11 only had 64k (that's k, not meg) of
ram I believe.
Ted
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>Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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>>This is fine for