what model toshiba. mine does just that, wireless access point. its a satellite of some sort! 486/75 with 20 M RAM.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:40:46 +1300 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All these per great reading from my pov. > > Where did we get to on the issue of 2004 install fests? > > It's been a couple of weeks sense the dinner so I guess my wife will let me > out again. > > In other good news... I picked up a new power supply from Cash Converters > today for my old Toshiba laptop so I'll be all go for some help to set that > up with linux as a wireless access point, print server, router, general do > everything box if we have an install fest to get some help. > > Cheers Don > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:18 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: WANTED: Distro recommendation > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:18, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > > I want to find a _simple_ distro to do the following tasks: > > > > > > If you want to use an old/slow machine, that is going to be > > used from > > > the console, then avoid Mandrake (hi Jason) and all it's wonderful > > > friendly point and click interface stuff ... go for Debian > > stable, which > > > you can install, set up and ignore for ever after. > > > > Nah use Mandrake just don't install kde or gnome choose Icewm > > or black box > > instead. And also don't install all the libs. Mandrake will > > be the easiest > > and quickest to set up. And if space is a problem you can get > > Mandrake linux > > with the console tools + X Blackbox + servers at around 200MB or less > > depending on what you cut out. Also being i586 and -O2 > > compiled it's going to > > be abitfaster on an old pentium than Debian (i386). Of course > > if it is a 386 > > then debian. > > > > Chad > > > > > > > > > > > DNS Server (has to have the ability to apply a fixed IP > > to a certain MAC > > > > address) > > > > > > That's a DHCP server you're describing - still, just as > > standard as a > > > DNS server :-) > > > > > > > Mail Server - must use maildir > > > > > > "all" MDAs these days can support Maildir, and if they > > don't, they can > > > pipe messages into something that can. Debian provides exim. > > > > > > Don't fall down the trap of qmail. It's Lovecraftian. > > sendmail is pretty > > > gross too :-) And I'm speaking as someone who has built both from > > > sources, and configured from scratch. Trust your > > distribution to provide > > > something else! > > > > > > > Now I know that I could do this with damn near any distro > > out there, but > > > > surely there has to be something that already exists to > > do this and has > > > > nice admin tools etc. built in? > > > > > > If it's on a secure network, webmin is a good-enough approach to > > > providing standard admin tools for all your server > > software, and it's > > > provided by pretty much all distros. > > > > > > I vote Debian. > > > I guess Gentoo is about right too. > > > > > > -jim > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
