On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Oliver Thuns wrote: > >I have a 386sx-33 with: > >4mb ram > >100 mb hard disk > >10mbit ethernet card > > > >Would this be enough for pop3 server and proxy server for a 25 node network > >with one dial up connection ? > > I think you need more than 4 MB to install Linux (or FreeBSD). Maybe > FreeBSD ist an option for you, on my 8MB 486 it runs faster than Linux. > It should be possible to use your machine for this. I think a 486 > machine with 8 MB and a 200 MB harddisk would be better.
IIRC, there is a lomem boot option that enables you to boot machines with only 4mb ram. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
