See below... > -----Original Message----- > From: gdmellott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:25 PM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Large Scale Storage? > > > Hi David, > > Thanks for responding. An answer and questions are mixed in > with your response, if you wish to address them. > > > David C. Kerber wrote: > > > >>I'm no authority on it, but my experience with using > FreeDOS as a file > server was not encouraging. I > >>used the MS networking services that came with WFW 3.11, and it was > functional but unacceptably > >>slow. At the time (a few months ago), nobody had a suggestion of a > >>faster > set of server libraries, so I > >>gave up on it and went to a different OS. > > > >>How much RAM do those machines have? > > > > 256MB, 512MB for a while on one. > > > >> If at least 128MB and you have some unused copies of windows XP > >>lying around, that configuration has worked pretty well > for me as a > >>low end file server (for logging over the > network mostly), and would > >>probably be ok for archiving as well. With essentially no user > applications running, 128MB is enough for > >>XP to act as a file server. > > I'm surprised, MS still supports K6 CPUs.
I run it on a geode 400MHz processor for embedded uses. > > I suspect one needs to tell the Setup to limit the files installed > > somehow. Is that a normal setup question asked? Or does > one need to > > throw a switch at it to get there? I don't think it asks anything; it just detects what it needs to know. It has pretty good backwards compatibility, as long as the processors run a basic x86 command set. D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
