On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke <m...@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: > >> > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III >> > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. > > I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a headless 1 GHz Pentium III with 256 MB RAM. > > ... > >> Again... so long as the system won't change its overall process >> objectives, go to the recent production release, but instead of >> assigning 256M for /, throw 2G at it to be safe. > > 2 GB for / seems excessive to me. 1 GB should be plenty. I have 500 > MB allocated for FreeBSD 7.2: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 496M 144M 312M 31% / > > Although, with a cheap PCI SATA controller card you should be able to > use current model terabyte-sized hard drives on a Pentium III, so hard > drive space is a bit academic. > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2 and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :) -- http://alexus.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"