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From: Somebody <somebody@cu-online.com>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: Suggestions?
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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.
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