A mouse would be useful even if you never ran an X session. gpm gives you text
copy and paste functions in the command line environment. I ran Linux with no
GUI for a couple of years before I started using X... I didn't need it.
As far as configuring in terminal mode it's not that difficult. It's largely
a matter of editing some simple text files and -HUP'ing some processes. If
you're new to Unix/Linux I recommend a couple of books to you to start out..
Linux Network Administrators Guide by Olaf Kirch, published by O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc.
Running Linux by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, published by O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc.
You can order these on-line from http://www.moongroup.com/linux_stuff.html
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
On 19-Mar-98 plaven wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Wishing to re-capture my 'glory days' when I used to use a dial in shell
> account, I went out and bought ver5 of the redhat linux dist. I pretty
> much read the whole of the installation guide that comes with the package,
> I even managed to install Linux no worries.
>
> I have put together a 486sx33 with 8 meg, it has a 340meg ide and a 200meg
> SCSI and a 2X SCSI cdrom connected via a futuredomain 16X0 card, NIC is an
> 8 bit 3com elinkII, I'm running a mono screen (amber) and no mouse. Being
> on a budget means that I use what I have, and it isn't a pretty sight! :)
>
> I installed linux when the computer was in another room and not connected
> on a network (will only consist of the linux and a win machine) and I would
> now like to get the network side setup. The problem is that all the
> references in the installation book are programs that run under X (I
> believe). Now that I want to configure things with out the aid of a mouse
> driven GUI, where do I start?
>
> Does anyone know if I could even setup X windows to work on an amber screen
> 80x25? I'm sure I could get a mouse then.
>
> The purpose of not having a mouse and colour monitor was so that I'd get to
> play with the OS at a ground level, but not knowing where to start makes it
> somewhat difficult, any reading suggestions? My ultimate aim for the linux
> machine is to run as an email and news server transferring email and news
> during the early hours of the morning (off peak rates) and as a firewall so
> I can try out ip-masqurading and use the windows machine for interactive
> net stuff.
>
> Or would I just be better off starting over with a vga monitor and mouse?
> But like I said, if I had the budget I'd have them already, as the linux
> machine is only going to work as a server to the win95 machine (email,
> news, firewall, etc) I don't see that I need a gui.
>
>
>
> Cya,
>
> Pete
> <sig under construction>
>
>
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