Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:56:29 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: silvah@spectra.net (Harry Silva) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configurstion Message-ID: <199807211356.JAA14761@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <35B3ED7D.D3379842@spectra.net> from Harry Silva at "Jul 20, 98 09:23:09 pm"
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Harry Silva wrote: > hi. > > I am most interested in using your unix clone program. I would like to BSD is not a clone. It /is/ Unix, tracing its code directly back to the orthodox scrolls and tablets of the Ancient Masters. Linux, Minix, and Coherent are clones. (Nothing wrong with that, though). > establish a small internet server and would like to be able to run it on > a unix pc box. A wise choice, often made. > I have several computers available. I was unsure of the particular > reqirements of your o/s See www.freebsd.org for details. 386SX or better. > the unit i propose running on is: > > 4 meg ram (I could upgrade to 8 easily, 16sa little less easily. Do the upgrade to 8, for starters. The installation will choke on 4 MB. I suppose you are going to serve WWW pages? If so, consider 16MB as very desirable. > The display card is cga/mda (with monocrome moniter)(Vga possible but > may be to expensive) OK. For a server, BSD doesn't require a monitor or keyboard at all, except during installation. [But note: the /machine's BIOS/ may not boot without keyboard and monitor.] [Actually, you can do the installation from an old terminal on a serial line, but this requires a certain level of experience and patience.] I wouldn't use cga, simply because it's so crude. It'll /work/ though. MDA (Hercules) is much better -- these are nice consoles for servers. > I hasve a 40 meg hard drive and second 40 meg hard drive available - is > that sufficient? Use both. Think about getting a larger drive. These are quite cheap, used. (Probably a 528MB IDE drive goes for 40-50 US$ used). If you are on a tight budget, consider trading other hardware for disk. You'll be more comfortable with a disk >300MB. 80 MB will be a very "tight" installation. It's not enough to hold the whole OS -- you won't be able to do much compilation, I fear. > i do not have a cd rom installed. Not a problem, although installation will be more troublesome without a CDROM. Consider borrowing one. I see new 24X IDE CDROMs at $40US. A used 2X ought to be about 0.50 :) > I have a conventional ide interface. OK > The parrell port is on the display card. OK > The modem is on an internal card as com2: OK. There may be rough spots if it is PnP. It will not work at all if it is a "Winmodem". Period. > any help is appreciated. You will need a 3 1/2 " floppy drive. (Not a 5 1/4). Before installing, enter the machine BIOS and disable any "magic features", especially "shadow RAM". Enable A20 option, if available. You want things very "vanilla" in the BIOS. You say you have several machines available. Are they networked or networkable with Ethernet? If so you can have a lot more 'fun'. > I have limited funds. the internet connection will be free (except for > the phone line to the uplink) > does your o/s support ISDN? Yes. I don't know if it supports ISDN /during installation/, though. I would think so. To be happy, you'll want >=8MB memory and /more disk/. If you just /can't/ buy more disk, try /borrowing/ some for a while, until your familiarity with the system increases, and you can feel confident about paring it down. The bare minimum for installation is 386SX/5MB/3.5Floppy/~60MB disk. Of course, that results in a system that just boots and looks at you, not necessarily capable of useful work. Once you get it running, consider stuffing it as full of cache RAM as you can afford. (I'm assuming this is a 386/486 system). This makes a big performance difference. Dave -- not associated with FreeBSD, Inc. -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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