Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:09:01 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Clive Wishart <clive.wishart@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <00030818095805.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <EXECMAIL.1000308144932.A@men-clw.bris.ac.uk> References: <EXECMAIL.1000308144932.A@men-clw.bris.ac.uk>
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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
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