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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:52:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
To:        John Daniel <john@cell-works.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: large drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008221512520.446-100000@parmenides.utp.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008211239390.12772-100000@cell-works.com>

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, John Daniel wrote:
 
> I have a couple of large 20gig ATA66 drive on a new system i'm building .

If you are using an older system which does not recognize disks > 8 gig
you should turn off LBA mode in the BIOS. The BIOS will only see the disk
as 504 MB but FreeBSD will see the whole disk.

> I'd like to hear some discussion of the best way to partition them for a
> fileserver on a small mixed network.( nt ,macs, and linux)

If a couple means 2, I would put the base sytem on the first and "/home",  
"/www","/var" and "/tmp" on the second. 

> 
> the ultimate goal is the be able to share files and video ( my friend has
> three kids and the grandparents are in Hong Kong and he would like to
> eventually have the view his home video over the internet.) 
> 
> Any of you guys have any experience with the tools that would let you do
> that kind of thing.

> 
> My best guess is Samba for fileserving over a secure shell.
> and apache with ssl and a passwords for the video.

If you never used SAMBA before I can recommend the "SAMBA black book"
published by Coriolis. It gave me the necessary Window's networking
know-how in order to configure Samba on a small Win98 network.
www.samba.org has another SAMBA book on-line.

Recently there was a thread in either freebsd-questions or freebsd-stable
about setting up fileserving for Mac's

> 
> But I'd like to hear from somebody who has played with this sort of thing. 
> 

Sorry, I have not,

Janko



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