Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:38:33 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jbernt@usa.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ftp Site Message-ID: <19981228153833.W12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>; from Jeffrey Bernt on Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:45:15PM -0800 References: <19981228014515.11409.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
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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.
Greg
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