From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 21:09:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21809 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21801 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA27014; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:38:33 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA30351; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:38:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981228153833.W12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:38:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jbernt@usa.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ftp Site References: <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>; from Jeffrey Bernt on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:45:15PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 December 1998 at 17:45:15 -0800, Jeffrey Bernt wrote: > Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to set up my NT server as an > ftp site, and install FreeBSD from my ftp site using the FreeBSD > install disk onto a networked computer. I can use my freebsd cdrom as > the source on the nt computer, but other computers need access to the > cdrom too (because they don't have one), (otherwise I'd just swap out > the cdrom.) This is really an NT question. ``Ask your friendly Microsoft rep''. Bring money. You'd be a lot better off running a FreeBSD ftp server. From a recent article about your alternatives: - Buy a PC and install Microsoft on it. For a large server, you'll need NT, and the software license will cost about as much as the server. Microsoft has a Solutions/Best Practices web page (http://www.microsoft.com/misc/backstage/solutions.htm) which tells you that you can expect to move about 6 GB a day from three Compaq ProLiant 5000s or 5500s with four Pentium Pro processors and 512 MB memory each. In order to maintain availability, Microsoft recommends that you install multiple systems with failover. - Buy a PC and install FreeBSD on it. The hardware would appear to cost the same, but you don't pay anything for the software. In fact, as the hardware configuration for wcarchive.cdrom.com (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.txt) shows, this is misleading. wcarchive is only a single system with a single CPU, also a Pentium Pro. By contrast to Microsoft's 6 GB of downloads per day, however, it routinely transfers more than 700 GB of data a day to up to 3600 concurrent users-over 100 times the performance of three larger NT machines combined. On December 2, 1998, wcarchive transferred 820,097,694,368 bytes of data, making it the busiest ftp server in the world. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message