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/ 3.5.1 also still supports the old CMD 640 ide controller if you have the misfortune to have one of those. Of course, if your going to put a 3.5.1 system on the Internet, it is a requirement you have a full source tree because your going to have to patch the hell out of it, and recompile the kernel and a bunch of daemons. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott I. Remick > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:27 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Man pages take forever on slow machine? > > > 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" > tried to bring > up a man page. It has been on "Formatting page, please wait..." > ever since. > > I didn't pay attention to when, but I think it was at least an hour ago. > Yes, an HOUR. And I still don't have my man page. > > Yes this isn't the fastest machine (I think it's a Pentium > 133MHz, 16MB RAM) > but really... I ran FreeBSD 2.2.2 as a webserver on a 486 66MHz > "back in the > day". I'd expect this to be slow, but... 1+ hours for a man page? > > It's worse than that, though. I can't CTRL-C out. I get lots of > ^C^C^C^C but > it won't stop. I can use ALT-F2 and ALT-F3 to load up additional VTTYs but > they are unresponsive... I type and nothing appears. Maybe if I > come back a > LONG while later I see some of my keystrokes. > > I was trying to do a good deed by recycling some old hardware my > dad had and > give him a FreeBSD server to learn with. But this is bizarre. Asking for a > man page has brought this system to its knees. C'mon... it ran > Windows 95. I > think we can do better than this....? It's not even going to be GUI. > > Any advice? Thanks in-advance... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
