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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!news.zeitgeist.net!lind.mojones.com!seibel From: Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help me double check my FreeBSD box configuration before I buy it. Date: 5 Dec 1995 00:06:03 GMT Organization: Mother Jones Interactive Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4a02db$on1@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lind.mojones.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius 2.0.4_68K X-XXMessage-ID: <ACE8CFE5F5037687@lind.mojones.com> X-XXDate: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:18:45 GMT [Apologies if this appeared twice. My news service is incredibly flaky.] Okay, I'm in the home stretch now. Thanks to everyone in this group who's advised me so far. Now I just want to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid before I buy this machine which is going to replace our old Sun 4/260 as our web server, running FreeBSD. Intel 133Mhz. Pentium. Asus motherboard, Triton chipset Pipeline Burst Cache, 512K Simm 4x32 72 Pin (16MB chip) x 2 = 32Meg RAM Teac 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 2.0GB HDD SCSI WIDE Adaptec 2940W PCI SCSI Controller SMC EtherPower Combo (8432BT) Intg. PCI LB EHH IDE Cont + I/O (??? What is this) CPU Fan Diamond Stealth 64 PCI w/1MB 15" Color Monitor .28DP NI Tower Case, w/2Fan 300W Mouse and Keyboard I plan to get a tape backup system later, after I see if I can use the DAT we have now for our Mac file server. Thanks again, Peter -- Peter Seibel seibel@mojones.com Writer/Perl Hacker 510-482-9105