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From: adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster)
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Hi,
>I'm new to this list and new to FreeBSD.  Some friends and I are 
>getting ready to start providing internet service to our community 
>and would like any suggestions you may have.
>We figure on starting small and growing (hopefully).  56k line to 
>start, with 5 lines coming in.
>FreeBSD running on a:
>Pentium 100
>16 meg ram
>1 gig scsi hard drive
>4X CD rom drive.
>
>Does this look like a good basic system to start with?  Is that 
>enough memory?
>
>I would appreciate any hints, and please forgive my ignorance.

Are you planning on bringing in a full or partial news feed?  I would suggest a 4GB drive as a proxy caching and news spool.

Thanks,
Andrew Foster
First Link Internet Services.
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Andrew Foster
Sydney, Australia