Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:07:44 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@optiplex-networks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question Message-ID: <20091229140744.GB90870@Alex1.lan> In-Reply-To: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > Hi guys, > I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently > installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I > tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the > documentation through fully beforehand) but I didn't manage to get the > mouse or keyboard to even work let alone starting the Gnome2 interface. Beside the two daemons others refered to, you sould also edit ~/.initrc and ~/xsession. For me both have the line: 'exec startkde'. Thats the command to start kde. > I am looking to setup a small file server which I will use as DNS and > NTP server also. The reason for selecting FreeBSD is that the system I > about to install onto doesn't have much memory (not sure how much but > probably in the region of 300-500MB perhaps) and although Linux would > definitely suite this kind of system as Solaris needs round 2GB or so > for OpenSolaris, I am quite interested to learn FreeBSD but also take > advantage of the ZFS file system which is standard now in version 8. I would stick with UFS of UFS2. The latter if you don't intent to share them with *BSD. As I understand ZFS uses quite a lot more resources. If I wanted to something with RAID I might still use it, but even so still would use UFS to the system slices. If you low on disk space you can reduce this. I have used 256M for / in the past but would advise against this. You would need something like 8G for /usr. But may need to raise that by 5G if you build ports. I have larger /temp of 7G, but also build ports there. If you build Java it would need a least 4G. > I won't be installing a GUI on this machine since it is going to be a > server so I would like to know if BSD has a small footprint memory and > CPU wise for me to run on the machine in question which is a PIV? It's not a problem. The footprint depends more on the ports you like to run. > Also just to make sure: NFS, Samba, NTPd, and ISC's Bind are all > supported on FreeBSD aren't they?? Some come with the system, others you have to install. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply.
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