From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 23 13:55:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13038 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA13032 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971223215447.18157.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [156.153.255.218] by send1a; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:54:47 PST Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:54:47 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: 2 quick questions To: JB , questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 1. For the soundblaster stuff I can only recommend searching -hackers or -multimedia archives. Luigi has done a lot of work on that front. 2. A P200 should easely handle ftp/www/mail/dns for 30 people. 3. If the telnet access is for light application use only like to read mail or something you can do the telnet on that same machine. 4. I would like to add a question about NFS to yours, whether NFS code is stable enough to run production. 5. As far as disk drives I would not recommend using disk drives bigger than 4Gig for disk intensive applications. Hope this helps. Rudy ---JB wrote: > > My first question is very simple. I have a soundblaster awe 32 > card. Is there a way i could make the card work through the kernal. > > My second question Is a little more technical. I have run red hat > and slackware before but have never run freebsd. They are simular and i > have gotton the feel for it already but i have been recently asked to set > up a small networking scheme. This projects involves setting up 5 freebsd > machines (5 new pentium 200mhz machines with 64-128 mb ram). A > mailserver, www server, Dns server, NFS and a telnet machine for > general use for about 30 people. I was going to setup seperate machines > running differnt daemons but i would like to try to run nfs. I > understand nfs but i wanted to know two things. First of all > would it be sensible to install all main files (ie usr files and all > user directories) on the nfs machine with multiple disk drives or one > big one (12gig/23 gig scsi)then just use small disk drives (1gig) for the > other machines and mount all files accross like for the mail and our > intranet/internet web server. Or is it better to have medium size disk > drives (4 to 8 gig) on each machine and then mount each machine through > the nfs machine. Or am i thinking completely wrong and i need to go back > and read an nfs book. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated. > > John > > > ********************************* > * M C S N E T * > * Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II * > * jrs@mcs.net * > ********************************* > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com