From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 14:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12220 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12077 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA10126; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Tracy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can I find more information? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Tracy wrote: > I am trying to find more technical/administrative information on FreeBSD > such as what are the size limitations on available filesystems, None known. There is a 2GB limit on filesize tho. > can swap be spread across multiple disks, Absolutely. > what are the steps necessary to set up a system with two NIC's so that > one NIC is connected to our campus network and the other is used to > connect 4 FreeBSD systems together to share NIS, NFS, and other > information, Insert cards, plug in minihub, set gateway=yes, enjoy? > several NIS setup questions, http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html > advanced mail, web and ftp setup questions (such as web farming, etc.), www.apache.org is a good start for web-related bits. > how many users/ processes per RAM, CPU, DISK, NIC, etc... Huh? > I have a LOT of questions :) Although I would love to have someone who > could answer all of these questions for me, I think it would be better > if someone could point me to a good source, or several good sources, of > information in any format (web, print, email, etc.). Obviously, a good start is http://www.freebsd.org, particuarly the Documentation and Search links. Secondly is ``The Complete FreeBSD'' by our own Greg Lehey. You can buy it through Walnut Creek. > For anyone interested in why I have so many questions, I'm putting > together an Internet solution at our university to replace a DEC Alpha > 3000 and the systems that we are looking at getting are four Dual Pentium > II 333Mhz (we'll just use the one processor until a release version of > FreeBSD with SMP comes out), 512MB RAM, four 4.5GB UltraWide SCSI drives > connected to an Adaptec 3940UW controller, two SMC 10/100 PCI NIC's and 1 > 8mm SCSI Tape drive to be used among the four systems probably using > amanda or a custom solution. Our DEC Alpha will be kept on as a PPP and > DNS server and possibly as the Master NIS server. Wahoo! :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message