Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:45 am, Scott I. Remick wrote: > --- Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it > > even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have > > 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more mem

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 06:15:44AM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > --- Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it > > even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have > > 16MB, I was suspecting

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-29 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Ramiro Aceves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My pentium 100 MHz with 16 MB RAM runs smoothly with FreeBSD 4.10 , it > even runs fvwm under X. I am not able to run 5.3 install, as I only have > 16MB, I was suspecting that I need more memory for the install proccess. The reason I wanted 5.3 w

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-29 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Scott I. Remick wrote: Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I "accidentally"

RE: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
So did the O.P. but he's dissatisfied with the speed. Ted > -Original Message- > From: Irvin Piraman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 10:26 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re:

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Irvin Piraman
I got 5.2.1 running on P133+16MB RAM+2GB HDD Irvin On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:22:33 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD 4.10 is OK on a 16MB Pentium 133Mhz system, espically if > you recompile the kernel to make it smaller. But I wouldn't try > 5.3. > > Better on these old

RE: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
FreeBSD 4.10 is OK on a 16MB Pentium 133Mhz system, espically if you recompile the kernel to make it smaller. But I wouldn't try 5.3. Better on these older and smaller systems is FreeBSD 3.5.1 you can get it here: ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/3 .5.1/

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:26:52PM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get through > install, borrowed some and then could then back off to default 16MB after > 5.3 was on)

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Emmerton
> > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get > > through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to > > default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I thought I was on a roll until I > > "accidentally" tr

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 09:26 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get > through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to > default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I