Very Old Computer

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:33:55AM -0500, Wayne Thanatos McBroom wrote:
> I got a hold of a Duracom 486/SX. Which FreeBSD do you think would work on
> it? Just trying to replace the 3.11 system on it. Thanks. Later.....

FreeBSD 4.10 should work fine (assuming you have enough RAM.)
Until a few months ago I ran FreeBSd 4.10-stable on a 386sx/33 with 8MB
RAM.  It worked fine (but it wasn't exactly fast.)
8MB RAM is enough to run 4.10, but I think you need at least 12MB to
install it. (I believe the last version of FreeBSD which could be
installed on only 8MB RAM was 3.3.)

FreeBSD 5.x has dropped support for FPU-less systems, and since the
difference between 486sx and a regular 486 is that the 486sx lacks an
FPU, I don't think FreeBSD 5.x will work on your machine.



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