I'm sure that someone else will answer this more fully, but you might want
to partition out /home and possibly /var too.
I don't know about RH6.1, but 5.2 comes ready with the required services
(ok, so you have to fiddle a little bit conf files).
Mind you, not sure about the 486. Mine can berely cope with this list's
mail coming in... ;)
At 01:40 PM 11/17/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I am about to setup a old 486DX4100 / 16 megs of FPM RAM.....3 GB EIDE
>WD hard drive , CD ROM ...Single Channel GSI 18 controller....two Kingstone
>KNE20 = NE2000 Compatible ISA NICS.....to run RH 6.1 as a Gateway for my
>cable modem with a FTP site, email hosting and web server. I am kind of
>new to Linux and could use some advice.
>
>I am going to partition the drive like this....
>
>Root = 900 megs
>Swap = 50 megs
>Home = 2 GB or whatever is left
>Swap = 50 megs
>
>I am spliting up and using two swap files because I only have 16 megs of
>RAM on the box. ..which should be enough from the command line once things
>are set up and running. I have read that splitting up the swap files
>improves performance on PCs with small amounts of RAM.
>
>Once I get things running I will use partition magic to transfer what I am
>not using in root over to home...Home is where the FTP site will operate
>from...Correct ??
>This is where I will want my available storage. My web site will be under
>50 megs.
>
>RH 6.1 has all the necessary programs to do this ..right ? I understand
>that the FTP , email hosting, and firewall all install by default with RH
>6.1...is this right ?.... but does Apache web server install with RH 6.1 or
>do I need to obtain it separately?
>
>I know that what I am about to do is a very common use of Linux and old 486
>PCs and I am wondering if anyone has put together a step by step FAQ for
>doing all this ?
>
>Any comments, words of wisdom , warnings or advice would be appreciated.
>
>thanks
>
>morse
>
>
>
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