Snake Bite rearranged electrons thusly:
> i work in a small company where i have around 10 486
> based systems which hav 8mb ram, 500mb hdd, ethernet
> card and one pIII based system having 64mb ram & 10gb
> hdd etc. we hav a leased line.
Fine, set up a debian base install on those things. Or just install DOS or
something and make them remote X terms.
> i want to setup a network in my company where i want
> to have user accts of all the ppl, so that everybody
> can log in and work maybe from diff computers and
> still access all the basic linux services. i also want
> to hav mail accts of all the employees.
If you need a server hosting mail accounts and such, you'll likely need a
little more disk space than 10 GB ... disks are fairly cheap anyway. Add
another 10 GB disk if you can.
> now, i want to have a linux server, how should i
> proceed????
Install a light distro (debian / slakware / redhat custom install). Skip
bloatware like xwindows and emacs (you can't afford the space on such small
capacity machines)
> can i hav all the services on the server, like mail,
> apache etc. and access mail from other systems??
Yes, definitely
> all the 486 machines hav very low hard disk space, so
> what to do with them???? can i connect all these
> hdd???
You want to make one gigantic hdd? Install DOS on the machines ... DR-DOS
or 4DOS say, not MS-DOS. Install Telix or Procomm to access the linux
server (or there are DOS mail programs - pegasus mail, browsers - arachne,
etc)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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