From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 25 01:23:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id BAA16362 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 01:23:35 -0800 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA16344; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 01:22:54 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA06279; Sat, 25 Feb 1995 11:21:43 +0200 Message-Id: <199502250921.LAA06279@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: jkh@FreeBSD.org cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Please help with 1.1.5.1... Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 11:21:42 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan (and the rest of the team): Hi Some time ago I saw either a usenet posting or a message on one of ther FreeBSD lists that described Freefall's configuration. (I recall something about a Pentium CPU, 96MB of RAM, 30 GB of SCSI disk and do on) (or was it WCArchive?) Anyway, at the time, the machine was running 1.1.5.1 with some stability patches. I showed this to my colleagues at work, and they were _impressed_. Some time later, (now), I have been asked to to get a news server running A.S.A.P., and it is agreed that 1.1.5.1 is the way to go. (2.0 has too many bugs, and they are too keen to get going to wait for 2.1 no matter how I try to sell it. They/we will not run -current) Now: Those "stability patches" that were mentioned. May I have a copy please? Also, any pointers to getting this configuration as stable as possible as a company's news/name/anything server. The machine is a 486DX2/66 32MB with an Adaptec 1542c (I know about the need for bounce buffers), and it will start out life with 3GB of disk, split as 1GB/2GB. Apart from that, the motherboard is known to be good, and the disks are from HP and DEC, so I don't think we will have any hassles there.. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200