From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 28 14:32:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03047 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from excala.netpacq.com ([208.239.156.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA03035 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:32:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@netpacq.com) Received: from [208.239.156.4] by excala.netpacq.com (NTMail 3.03.0017/1d.aafj) with ESMTP id ga032168 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:29:08 +0800 Message-Id: <4.1.19981228142840.00a68ed0@mail.netpacq.com> X-Sender: paul@mail.netpacq.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:29:40 -0800 To: Greg Lehey From: Paul Subject: Re: Ftp Site Cc: jbernt@usa.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981228153833.W12346@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just use serv-u from http://www.cat-soft.com Very easy to set-up and admin, and does not cost a whole lot... At 03:38 PM 12/28/98 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >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. > Best regards, Paul Jacobs Commerce Service Provider (CSP) Internet Presence Provider (IPP) http://www.netpacq.com mailto:paul@netpacq.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message