From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 23:24:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65BB37B7A6 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:24:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA24233; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 08:24:05 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 08:24:04 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Clive Wishart Subject: RE: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Mar-00 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. Dunno about FreeBSD 3.xx but I recently installed 2.2.5 (an older 2.2.8 would also work I imagine. I just happened to have the 2.2.5 disks at home) with 8 megs of RAM, and 258 Meg drive. In the past I have installed it with 4 megs, even though the docs clearly state 5 megs as a minimum? The 386/40 seems to do all right, yes, a bit sluggish it is:) Anyway, installing a 'smallest distribution possible' may fit within 200 Megs with samba too. I have no experience with LPRng. The /var/spool requires much space. I fear you cannot use the 100 Meg disks for the system, but perhaps they will lend themselves to /var/spool? When installing, select 'Auto Defaults for All' to find out what it recommends for /, /usr, /var and swap. My little experience say that you could well accept these values. FreeBSD seems to swap cleverly so the swapping traffic not really interferes with normal work. I have squeezed / down to 17 Megs, below that the install failed. Cram in as much memory as possible, and, since you can't use a box with a single 100M drive anyway I suggest you use this disk for /var/spool. /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message