Ed Paris said... > I am new to the Linux world and have a few questions. I currently have a > small (miniscule) consulting group that needs a system that can mimic our > web hosting service provider so we can further develop our site. We do not > currently intend to have this system as a web server. We have a 1999 Gateway > Pentium III system with the following characteristics: > * 320 MB of RAM > * 10 GB Western Digital hard drive > * Promise Ultra ATA/66 hard drive controller > * CD/DVD ROM optical disk (it cannot write to disk) > * D-LINK DFE-530TX+ Ethernet card > * Windows XP > > We are planning to: > * Replace the 10 GB drive with a Western Digital Caviar 40 GB Ultra > ATA/100 hard drive > * Replace the Ultra/66 controller with a Promise Ultra ATA/100 TX2 > controller that is backward compatible to our motherboard > * Replace the CD/DVD ROM optical disk with an AOpen COM5232 > combination CD-RW/DVD ROM drive > * Keep the same Ethernet card > * Run Debian 3.1 (sarge), Apache 1.3, PHP 4.1.1, and MySQL 4.0 > > Does any of this approach make sense to those of you who know Debian?
Should be fine. Rather than replace the drive, you might as well keep the old one; always handy for backups, etc. Not sure whether you need to change the controller, but perhaps there are technical reasons for doing so. > Would you advise me to run GNOME or KDE instead of staying with BASH? You can do all three, if you like. ssh is the traditional way to admin a server, but you might want to run a remote KDE/Gnome session on it, if that's what you are more comfortable with. I often do the latter on a few headless boxes that are locked away in a cold dark room. This behaviour can cause seizures in the "command line or die" brigade, so always wear dark glasses when doing so. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
