From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 15:42:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D75D37B569 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:42:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@bolingbroke.com) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29239; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:42:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:42:00 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: Walter Brameld Cc: Clive Wishart , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <00030818095805.00230@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Clive Wishart wrote: > > > > 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. > > > 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. Why would it be sluggish, unless he's running X (which isn't required for just a print server)? I have a 386 that was running on 8 meg RAM until just recently, doing duty as a network NATD/DNS/mail relay. I'm not claiming any speed awards, of course, but it's not sluggish either. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message