From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 15:10:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 624B837B5F3 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [12.21.241.164] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id aa048724 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:10:01 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA00330; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:09:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Clive Wishart , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:09:01 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030818095805.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Clive Wishart wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of older PC 486's with either 8 or 16 Mb memory and > 100 or 200Mb hard disks which I would like to re-use as neworked print > server boxes for use with both unix and NT. I would like to install a > minimum sytem for print services and print accounting including LPRng > and Samba. As a relative newcomer to FreeBSD I would like to know what > the minimum requirements would be. The installation would have to be > via ftp so which installation options should I select? > Suggestions for disk slice sizes ie / swap /var /user would be useful. > > Thanks > > Clive. > Tip #1: You will need at least 12 meg ram to install. I understand it will run on 8, but will be sluggish. If it's just a print server you may not even notice. -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message