From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 7:31:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wookie.bellsouth.cl (bellsouth.cl [206.48.84.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AC614C1D for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcelo@msm.cl) Received: from stgo.cl (postfix@[206.48.86.98]) by wookie.bellsouth.cl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11356 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:28:27 -0300 Received: from marcelo.msm.cl (marcelo.stgo.cl [192.168.1.1]) by stgo.cl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF512193425 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991022110736.00cd0480@server> X-Sender: miturbe@server X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:31:39 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" Subject: instalation questionk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a few questions regarding instalation and opration. 1) I would like to install FreeBSD via FTP. The computer which I will be=20 installing it on, does not have an operating system installed. I was trying to go through the instructions found at=20 http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html. However, the instructions=20 refer you to a bootable floppy, and then there are instructions on how to=20 make the bootable floopy from the CD-Rom. I downloaded ls-lR.gz from cdrom.com trying to figure out which files I=20 might need. I found the dos tools required to make the floopy but not the=20 files. can some one help me out with this matter? Which files I need to=20 create the bootables? I would like to install 2.2.8 stable since this is going to be a highend=20 server. 2) The server which will run FreeBSD, currently has 1 PentiumIII Xeon=20 500Mhz cpu with the capacity to grow up to 4 CPUs. If I add more CPUs in the future, will this have any implications on=20 FreeBSD? Or will just work naturally and recognize them both at start-up? 3) This server has 2 nine gig hard drives (raid 5 model). They are=20 hotswapable. I would like to have the 2 hard drives mirror each other at=20 all times. How can I acomplish this? I would imagine that once that is up=20 and running.. if I have to remove one of the hard drives I would have to a)= =20 stop the mirroring software b) unmount the drive and c) remove the drive.=20 Or can FreeBSD handle someone just pulling out the hard drive? Thank you for your time and feedback. Regards, Marcelo *********************************************** ICQ 22921676 MSM Interactive. Dario Urzua 1940, Providencia, Chile. Phone: (56-2)204-3510=A0 Fax: (56-2) 204-3508 Email: marcelo@msm.cl=A0=A0=A0=A0http://www.msm.cl ******************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message