Re: Anticipating my first dive into OpenBSD

[Rodney Hopkins <rhopkins_(_at_)_team_(_dot_)_camaroz28_(_dot_)_com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:59:46 -0600, Kevin <kkadow_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com> wrote:
>>The plan is to see if I can get OpenBSD onto a 10 year old i386 with
>>dubious parts (P1 + SIMMs era), which I want to set up as a firewall,
>>and then to install it on a P3 box with about 8Gbs drive to be an
>>Intranet server for a two machine + laptop LAN. 
>
>Ouch.  I've been running OpenBSD for about five years now, and I'd
>have a tough time making a stable machine with the handicaps you've
>set for yourself.

Uh..keep in mind, a 10 year-old machine is only from 1995.  This is 
firmly in Pentium territory and the original poster indicates 
his machine is a P1.  These machines were PCI-based and as such 
and as such should run OpenBSD quite stably.  In fact, I have run 
OpenBSD on several Pentium machines of that approximate vintage and 
I continue to have two such machines running quite fine to this day.

So, I certainly hope the original poster is not discouraged from 
trying to run OpenBSD on a Pentium box.  I suspect, unless his 
machine is EXTREMELY odd or unusual, he should get very acceptible 
results.

Regards,

Rodney Hopkins
rhopkins_(_at_)_team_(_dot_)_camaroz28_(_dot_)_com

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