>I'm thinking of bringing my old Duo 230 (system 7.1, 8 megs of ram, 80 >meg hard drive, 68030 processor) out of retirement and setting it up as a >Claris Emailer server. Any suggestions on system configuration? I'd be >willing to upgrade the system -- my priority is stability. 7.1 worked >fine with Emailer version 1.1, and I don't recall any serious system >issues. It always seemed pretty rock solid. I'll want to upgrade to CE >version 2.0v3, though. Any thoughts on essential system extensions? I >figure the fewer the extensions, the better. > >I've been playing around with the 230 for a couple of hours -- those old >programs and system were pretty damn elegant. Flexible, useful and >without a lot extra crud.
If you just want to use this as a dedicated Email client machine, then I would probably recommend a basic install of System 7.5.5. Some might recommend 7.6.1 because of the newer version of Open Transport, but 7.6.1 will chew up more RAM (about 5 MB for a basic install, which starts to get things pretty tight once Emailer is running... 7.5.5 will fit in about 3 MB of RAM, and can be squeezed to under 2 if you clean out some of the fluff). The other great thing about using 7.5.5... its free from Apple's web site. As for essential extensions... I would strip out everything that is not core functionality. Although, honestly with 7.5.5 there isn't much fluff in there. Just dump the Personal Web Sharing (wait, was that even in back then?!?). And if you have a 7.6 installer, you might want to do a custom install of its version of Open Transport on top of the 7.5.5 installation. This will give you a newer AppleShare client (not a big deal for email), as well as IIRC, a DHCP lease fix (there was a problem with older versions of OT not getting DNS info from a DHCP server as well as not properly dropping and renewing leases, and I'm pretty sure this fix made it into the 7.6. version of OT). Or you could just give me the Duo entirely... I don't have one of those yet! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
