Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-03 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Jonathan, On Monday, September 03, 2001 at 3:11:40 PM, you wrote (at least in part): > you can get kernel 2.4 support in potato (I use this on production > workstations), but adding this to /etc/apt/sources.list: > #kernel 2.4 stuff > deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: :On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: :i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I figured :woody was stable enough to be used on a server by now. You can still get bit hard by a stray typo, but I've

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:50:55PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > just a question of been there, done that, with potato. thought > i could get a shot at configuring iptables, that's why i > thought of 2.4. Now you are clear why you are asking this. I agree woody seems satble enough if one migraded a

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:24:30PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > General rule of Linux: > > Server, use older mature platform. > Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. > > So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. i've already got a server running potato with 2.2.17. I fig

Re: server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
General rule of Linux: Server, use older mature platform. Client, have fun with latest thing but expect some glitch. So you should install potato with Kernel 2.2. I have woody box (SMP/woody) but my server is 486/DX2 50MHz 20MB running Kernel 2.2 /Potato (here) Mail server (exim) + DNS ser

server on a 486/100 with 408mb drive

2001-08-31 Thread Sam Varghese
i need to set up a server for my home lan and am thinking of using woody - if the hardware at hand is good enough - with a 2.4 series kernel. the hardware i have is an amd 486/100 with a 408 mb hard drive and 40 meg of ram. i would need to run a mail and web server besides a caching only nameserve