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From: John Beukema <john@gateway.net.hk>
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cc: John Anderson <johna@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Would like your opinion
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You need at least 8G of disk to do news and full ISP services. Get 3 or 
four disks.  Try a digiboard as terminal server.
jbeukema



On Fri, 5 Jan 1996 scanner@jurai.net wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, John Anderson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> Personally even though your looking to save money I would jack the ram up 
> to 32 megs. that should make your system more comfortable.
> other than that it looks ok.
> 
> 
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