On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:46:50AM +0300, Vin Jacob wrote: > What is a good setup for two machines, Desktop P3 650 256MB RAM + > Laptop 2.6MHz 512 RAM ? > > The laptop is almost just to my liking, sid running a custom compiled > 2.6.9. I have an internal winmodem in the laptop, which works. All I > have right now is dial-up. On the desktop I have another USR Serial > modem as well, although I do not have a network card in there yet. > Planning to buy one soon. > > I would highly appreciate some cues as to what would be an appropriate > set up for this, in terms of networking, splitting tasks between the > two machines etc. I currently have exim4, firehol, apache, squid etc. > running well on this laptop. My /var/cache/apt has 3.1G of sarge/sid packages > which I painfully downloaded over a dial-up at measly speeds. Need to > put that to good use as well. > > Thank you for your time. > > -- > cheers, > Vin
Yes, replying to myself for future notes :) Decided to go for sarge since I couldn't find an OpenBSD iso large enough for a networkless install. $ wget -cvd http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso DEBUG output created by Wget 1.9.1 on linux-gnu. --09:57:07-- http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso => `sarge-i386-1.iso' Resolving ftp.acc.umu.se... 130.239.18.142, ---request begin--- GET /pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/sarge-i386-1.iso HTTP/1.0\015 User-Agent: Wget/1.9.1\015 Host: ftp.acc.umu.se\015 Accept: */*\015 Connection: Keep-Alive\015 Range: bytes=293443727-\015 \015 ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content Connection: Keep-Alive Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:04:05 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:16:07 GMT ETag: "83afd-2800f000-8153ffc0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 377706353 Content-Range: bytes 293443727-671150079/671150080 Content-Type: application/octet-stream Length: 671,150,080 (377,706,353 to go) [application/octet-stream] 47% [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==> ] 318,231,807 5.31K/s ETA 18:51:25 Started last night infact. 18 hours left :) Looking at this for now, http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/homegateway.html -- cheers Vin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
