Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:10:23 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: School Server & PicoBSD Message-ID: <36433B8E.78D0E8C1@aei.ca>
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Hi, I'm near 16 years old :-) I would like to show at my school how FreeBSD is powerful, but also get some technical skills with servers. If the admin let me play with is stupid machine of course.. We have something like 70-90 computers, (30 Macs, 30 WinNT and 30 Win95. I don't know why they buyed so much systems: it simply don't work properly. When we are a class of people on the net at the same time, it can take up to 10 minute to load a page. The server is ... a WinNT+a hub solution. Has I never worked with WinNT and with Ethernet system, I would like to know: -Is it a problem with Ethernet (I think they use 10baseT), WinNT or both? -Would PicoBSD change that? (talking about speed) Because I would like to bring PicoBSD, simply enter it and reboot. The only job I want him to do is to act has a server(gateway?) to access internet. The main problem are: -I don't currently know the hardware of the server. But it's not bullshit I think. Certainly a P200 and + -I never worked with Ethernet, I don't know the architecture of the school system. -PicoBSD would not have a swap partition (which could bring some problem, neh?) Now, could it be possible to: Simply reboot with PicoBSD, configure the kernel (I know how to do that), configure the Ethernet(that's the real new part), reboot, working. It would be a demonstration. Would it be simple? Should I use the router version? What are the file to edit in /etc? Can I recompile a kernel under PicoBSD? What are the kernel tweaking for such a server? Tank you -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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