[plug] Re: Redhat 6.1
raven at themaw.net
raven at themaw.net
Mon Mar 28 13:20:55 WST 2005
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 raven at themaw.net wrote:
> 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.
Oops. That's FC2 on CD.
I burned a DVD for FC3, sorry.
Perhaps you can get to the UCC night tonight.
It's one of the few meetings that I'll be able to get to.
>
> 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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