[plug] Re: Redhat 6.1
raven at themaw.net
raven at themaw.net
Mon Mar 28 13:16:24 WST 2005
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, David Buddrige wrote:
> 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,
You can borrow my FC3 till someone can burn you a copy if you wish.
I'm in Beldon. Where are you located.
For that matter I've probably got copies of old distros around as well.
Debian 3.0
Redhat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, FC1
Take your pick.
> 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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