Hello ,Iwas wondering if anyone here had the opportuniity (or misfortune) to try to install Free BSD or unix on a older Notebook.


I have a Toshiba Satellite with a 90 Mhz Pentium and 16 MB ram ,plus 4 GB HDR . No CD drive ,just floppy drive.


Would there be a problem using X or EVM on this reduced Memory Laptop, or could I circumvent it by using a Big Swap space on the HDr???




adios ,chilibowl

I don't recommend running X on these older machines.

I use older boxes for terminal / command line only, FWIW.

It depends how much X.

You could turn the box into an X terminal and front another server, or you could run a minimal X installation. Ironically I count Motif as lightweight these days, don't attempt Kde or Gnome.

Note that Xfree86 and Xorg tend to deprecate older video hardware support, I had an old machine that I had to compile an older version of an X server in order to support it.

Yes, it can be done, but I don't recommend it.

I didn't say it can't be done; it simply not how I spend my time; stuffing X in small antique servers.