I've an old 486DX4 -100mhz w/ 40mb RAM, 3 Western Digital 540mb IDE HDD's, 4x IDE
CD-ROM, 1.2 & 1.44 floppys, Iomega Ditto 420, 2 Linksys LNE10010 10/100 PCI NIC's
and a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM/S3 2mb video. I've been told this will be just fine
for a firewall for a 6-10 machine home network project. True or False? I'll be
sharing a cable modem internet connection to the networked machines. So far so
good?
I've burned the *rain* iso on to a cd-r and attempted to install it with a
partitioning scheme of: hda1=40mb<swap> hda2=475mb / hdb1=40mb<swap> hdb2=475mb
/var hdc1=40mb<swap> hdc2=475mb /home. Only Xwindows, internet client and
internet something? packages selected. Install bombed at 5% . Rebooted tried again
with same partitioning scheme, however, I didn't select Xwindows this time and the
install completed fine except the NIC's were not detected/installed. I do not see
them in /dev/ or /proc/ioports or /proc/interrupts and finally, not in ifconfig.
Do I need to recompile(for the first time solo) the kernel? If yes where will I
find the Storm/Debian(does it matter?) HOW-TO ? From here http://www.linuxdoc.org
maybe?
Now for the matter of size!
When I issue the df -m command the output is:
Filesystem MB-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda2 460 150 286 34% /
/dev/hdb2 460 8 428 2% /var
/dev/hdc2 460 0 436 0% /home
/dev/hdd 479 479 0 100% /cdrom
/dev/fd0 1 0 1 0% /mnt
With the drives I have and the described partitioning scheme is there enough room
for me to install Xwindows? How many mbs does X + Xpackages require? I'm thinking
it might be a little easier for a newbie like me to get things done, although I
understand it isn't necessary for a firewall machine.
Other partitioning scheme suggestions are welcome as it appears my idea may
inefficient use of available space?
Once these issues are behind me then we can talk about that Ditto drive, eh?
TIA
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