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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!n1van.istar!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!aurora.cs.athabascau.ca!news.mag-net.com!news.bctel.net!news.axionet.com!amd40.wecs.org!amd40.wecs.org!duane From: duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD as news-server?? Date: 6 Oct 1996 04:43:33 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD box. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.102.158.88 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi All: I have been hired by a local ISP to do cgi programming an to build and administrate a news server. Neato :-) Anyway the provided hardware is a DEC Prioris LX5150 server. Its really a Pentium 150, with 64 MB Ram, integrated DEC 435 ehternet adpter, and integrated Cyrus Logic 542X video. The on- board SCSI controller is the AIC 7850, this one had me worried but when I tried the FreeBSD 2.1.5R boot disk it found it with no problem and went into the install. Good stuff :-) They have ordered a Quantum 2.7 Gig and 2 Quantum Barracudas which are 4.3 Gig each if I remember correctly. My question is: What's a good partitioning scheme? I was thinking of possibly as much as 300 MB for OS and the INN-FAQ tells me to keep the 'overviews' out of the groups tree. Suggestions anybody ?? Duane E...