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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!vampire.xinit.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!erinews.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!convex!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD As News Server Date: 8 Nov 1995 13:59:08 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 44 Message-ID: <47qd3c$4r8@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <47o7v6$4pt@nntp.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tombstone (stone@thymaster.interaccess.com) wrote: : Hello! : I am working on setting up a news server at a community college, where : I work, that will serve around 400 people. : We have a T-1 to the internet and currently use a linux box as our : main mail hub. : I plan to buy a pentium 100 and install FreeBSD on it to run a : news server. : Space is not a problem for us because we have 30 GIG of NFS : mountable space. : My question is this: Will a Pentium 100 running BSD be able to : handle this task? It does for me! - I have 144 phone lines and 1600 users! But I dont think using NFS mounted disk space is such a good idea - that it where you will bottleneck and not be very happy. : I would be interested in hearing (for my own peace of mind) about : any of you who have successfully accomplished this. : I would also like a reccomendation on a CD (containing BSD) to get : started. I was thinking along the line of the FreeBSD CD sold by Walnut : Creek... You can just install over the net - I did. : Any comments would be greatly appreciated! : Thank You. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net