Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] comp.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> Howdy again.
> 
>  I'm going to be getting some P75 boxes and maybe some 486s depending on the 
> price.
> 
> I'm looking to stick OpenBSD on a P75 and maybe use a 486 (DX/66) or P75 as a
> small file server (well, dump backups onto it).
> 

I have a 386DX40 doing this very job - it reports an amazing 8 bogomips :-).
It does have a 2G disk and 16M of RAM. Most IDE disks should work ok. I tried
a nonX install of debian, with compilers, docs etc and it takes up 190M. I
have got a few extra packages on that I'm hoping to try out.
The one thing I will not be doing on this box is a kernel compile - reckon it
would take best part of a day. The 386 performs better than most multi-user
systems I used in the 70's and 80's.

>  Is the 486 gonna be OK for this? My guess is it will be fine...just wonna 
> check.
> 

about a year ago I had X and fvwm2 working fairly usably on a 486DX80 with 20M
ram. It limped abit with only 8M memory. But I upgraded to a blisteringly fast
AMD K5 166 :-) which is my main machine - mind you not sure what it would be
like with starorifice and gimp loaded and being used. 

Jim
"Clinging to the trailing edge of technology"

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