On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run with enough speed to run an sshd and not much else. It will just be to prove that old hardware can still be used. Any suggestions? _______________________________________________
That box doesn't have enough memory to run a current version of FreeBSD or Linux. Also what CPU does it use? FreeBSD 6.x, and I'm sure Linux 2.6, removed 386 support. You need a 486 or better to run the current version of FreeBSD. Does this box have a math coprocessor? The "recommended" minimum requirements to run FreeBSD 6.1 is a Pentium MMX, or equivalent, with 32MB of system ram. You can get by with less but you won't like the results if you plan to use it as a workstation. Use FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE or 5.5-STABLE for anything less then that. I did some tests on disk space and memory requirements back in January with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. Nobody seemed to notice the first time so I'll post it again: Test Rig: VMware 5 (Win2K/NTFS), VM Settings: 32MB RAM 64MB RAM For KDE-Lite Install (failed with 32MB) 128MB RAM For GNOME-Lite Install (failed with 64MB) 4GB Hard Drive (Default settings) CD-ROM (Pointing to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 ISO Images) No USB, No Audio, No LAN FreeBSD Disk Layout: ad0s1a 4095MB / ufs2 ad0s1b null swap null ad0s1d null /var null ad0s1e null /tmp null ad0s1f null /usr null Everything (/tmp, /var, and /usr) is setup on the root partition, no swap partition was setup. Results: * 1st column of numbers are from the VM disk image file. * 2nd column is from inside FreeBSD with "du -m". * All numbers reported in megabytes. Distribution Sets: Developer 918 741 X-Developer 1080 882 Kern-Developer 526 427 X-Kern-Developer 690 568 User 393 319 X-User 560 461 Minimal 183 156 Extrapolated Results: Ports System 283 270 GNOME-Lite 688 655 KDE-Lite 879 864 X.Org Default Install 164 143 X.Org Full Install 177 158 Linux Binary Compat. 255 127 Sys Sources + Proflibs 392 315 Kern Sources + Proflibs 133 109 Miscellaneous Sets: X-User (All X.Org) 572 476 X-User + GNOME-Lite 1247 1115 X-User + KDE-Lite 1438 1323 Minimal + Ports System 466 425 Minimal + Linux Compat. 438 282 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
