Re: A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > [cut] > > Secondly, I don't have a CD drive for the 486. Is it possible > > that I could get enough of base and nfs installed via floppy to do an nfs > > install from the pentium? Or is it hop

Re: A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Stephen Witt
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > machine (Pent 166) through it to the net ... can I do this without a > dedicated router, maybe using the 486 as a router and putting the Pent on > a new, local network? Will a 486 be up to the task of being a router, > web server, mail server, etc. all a

Re: A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: [cut] > Secondly, I don't have a CD drive for the 486. Is it possible > that I could get enough of base and nfs installed via floppy to do an nfs > install from the pentium? Or is it hopeless, and should I just move my > CD drive to the 486 long enou

A debian network

1997-07-17 Thread Will Lowe
Ok. A friend has an old 486DX-2 66 with 16 megs of ram and a Diamond Speedstar video card he wants to unload cheap. I was thinking about buying it from him and using it as a dedicated web server ... when I return to school in a month I'll have a direct 10mps line. The problem is this: I'll only