Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:50:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Somebody <somebody@cu-online.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestions? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.92.960416114845.4561B-100000@babba.cu-online.com> In-Reply-To: <199604160634.IAA07110@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Somebody said: > > what version of FreeBSD I want to use. I am think of going with BSD-STABLE > > but I am not sure if this the best decision. This machine is a P133 with > ^^^^^ > You don't really need a P133 for this. > > > 48M of ram and Buslogic 946C and a 4.2G Atlas Pro and 1G EIDE Drive for > ^^^ > Maybe not enough if you have a big enough feed. > > I'd suggest bying 2x 2.2 GB disk or 4x 1 GB disks and spread the spool & > news dir & overview data over all the disks (maybe with ccd). Get rid of > the IDE disk. Go all SCSI. IDE is evil. > > > the base OS and it will be running INN1.4unoff3 or unoff2. > > Take unoff4 and innfeed (see into news.software.nntp for details). > > > This machine will at first act as a newsfeeder for my other > > locations and other news exchangers. > > Better take a P90 with 64 MB than a P133 with 48... Memory is more > important than CPU power. Oh it doesn't matter actually memory and ram I will add more as need it. Yeah I heard good stuff about innfeed parrallel feeding and such sounds very cool. BTW I got another question I installed 2.1.0 how do I get the thing to upgrade tho to FreeBSD-stable. Carlosx Carlos Ramirez (217) 356 - 4009 Voice CU-Online System Administrator (217) 356 - 3600 Data Offerings Circuits Upto T1/E1 Speeds at affordable rates. "Your one stop Internet Provider"
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