[plug] Re: Redhat 6.1

[David Buddrige]

Ah yes - Dwelling up is a bit of a hike from here.  Does anyone else on the 
list have fedora on CD?  Otherwise, I'll look at the postal option. 

Another question about fedora - does it run ok on low-end hardware? 

thanks heaps all, 

David. 

Gavin Chester writes: 

> Hi David, I'm in Dwellingup :-(.  Great place to live, but that is why I
> was suggesting posting the disks - unless you fancy (nearly) a two hour
> drive _each_ way :-).  If travel not a problem, then I can have the
> discs waiting and just exchange for blank media, or I can burn a few
> copies on your media if you want. 
> 
> Let me know, Gavin.      
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 20:38 +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
>> Hi  Gavin,  
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.  
>> 
>> I'm in Koondoola [Northern Suburbs - Koondoola is surrounded on each of 4 
>> sides by Girrawheen, Mirrabooka, Alexander Heights and Ballajura].  What I 
>> could do is drive to your place [its the long weekend still 8-)] and bring 
>> with me my spool of blank CD's.  
>> 
>> What I'd really like 2 do, is run squid - because my border runs a windows 
>> box, and wants to just connect to the lan [I've an 8 port hub to which my 
>> PII/333 PC is connected] - hence the desire to run squid so that a person on 
>> any given operating system can connect to my machine.  Also my wife can 
>> connect on her laptop [486 running debian]  
>> 
>> cheers  
>> 
>> David.  8-)  
>> 
>>   
>> 
>> Gavin Chester writes:  
>> 
>> > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 18:37 +0800, David Buddrige wrote: 
>> > 
>> > -snip- 
>> > 
>> >> The task at hand, is to get an internet proxy so that my wife, border and I 
>> >> can all share our 56k modem line to surf the web.  I know this is going to 
>> >> be slow as anything but its better than nothing for the time being [funds 
>> >> being a bit on the low side].  
>> >> 
>> > -snip- 
>> > 
>> >> Alternately, I wait until I can find someone with another distro and a 
>> >> CD-burner.  I actually visited about 5 different Newsagents today, trying to 
>> >> find one that was open, so I could get Fedora or somesuch.  However, when I 
>> >> eventually found a newsagency that was open and had the computer mag's I was 
>> >> after, it turns out they're all on DVD now - and I don't have a DVD drive in 
>> >> my computer - only a 32X CDROM. 8-(  
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > I see where you're getting at now.   
>> > 
>> > You have been suggested the option of installing IPCop because it's a
>> > very good distro for a firewall, router, proxy server appliance on a
>> > dedicated machine - albeit one with a low-end hardware.   However, you
>> > don't want that, you want a workstation that will share the web with
>> > other PCs in the house - all low-end machines.  But, you can't use
>> > something like Ubuntu off magazine covers because you don't have a
>> > reader/burner.   
>> > 
>> > Sorry everyone, I'm tired and restating the obvious is helping me work
>> > through it for David :-) 
>> > 
>> > I have an alternative suggestion for you that hasn't been considered so
>> > far:
>> > I can burn you a copy of K12LTSP 4.2.0 that I have.  It is on four CDs
>> > (plus a boot install CD), which is what you need instead of DVDs.  It is
>> > really Fedora Core 3 with educational enhancements and the LTSP add-ons
>> > to setup a thin-client network. Only have to choose what you want at
>> > install.  
>> > 
>> > You would have at least three options at install:
>> > 1/ I use it at home with three PIIs (all under 400Mhz) as clients and
>> > this PII450 as a dual-purpose workstation/server for the clients sharing
>> > a dialup connection.  Everything works well albeit slow dialup compared
>> > to ADSL.  The catch for you doing the same is that you will need _much_
>> > more RAM in you your dual-purpose workstation/server to serve the
>> > clients - at least an upgrade to 256Mb, more better (I have 1Gb).  Keep
>> > things low-stress on your server by using IceWM or XFce over Gnome or
>> > KDE (too resource hungry). 
>> > 
>> > 	OR 
>> > 
>> > 2/ You could run the clients as fat clients (with harddisks and running
>> > apps locally) that just login to the workstation/server to share web
>> > access.  This will require much less server RAM and CPU grunt.  Also use
>> > IceWM or XFce. 
>> > 
>> > Both (1) & (2) are a no-brainer because I found K12LTSP to "just
>> > work" (TM) out of the box. 
>> > 
>> > 	OR 
>> > 
>> > 3/ You could install without any of the LTSP add-ons and just treat it
>> > as a stock FC3 install - but available to you from CD rather than DVD.  
>> > 
>> > Let me know if this is going to solve your problem.  Please send a
>> > response to the list to END the thread and also send me your address
>> > details OFFLIST.  I would only ask to be reimbursed the cost of the
>> > media (five disks) plus postage :-)   
>> > 
>> > Regards, Gavin Chester. 
>> > 
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