RE: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>> 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.

I've just got 5 540Mb disks on their way to me now...I'll spread those about 
and
get the storage that way.

>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.

See, thats what I've got the 256Mb SMP PII 400 box for! :-)
Recompile and reboot in under 10 min.
>
>>  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.


 MMmm. I'm not going to be running X...I don't even have monitors for these
systems...workhorses only.
 Each box is 16Mb. No problems there. Gonna have to start a new project in my
bedroom tho.. Take 6 machines, a 5 port hub and a stack of NICs, and wire them
all together...

MMmm..

Baz.

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