On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:01:28PM -0400, Chuck Seiders wrote:
> I've an old 486DX4 -100mhz w/ 40mb RAM, 3 Western Digital 540mb IDE HDD's, 4x IDE
'Sounds like my desktop machine, 'cept I went scsi & 96 Mb ram. Off
hand, it should be fine.
> 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
In my opinion, a firewall should be that and that only. You really
shouldn't be doing anything else with it, else you compromise the
security that the firewall gives you. But, I'll leave that to you.
> 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
*Three* 40 Mb swaps?!? You've only 40 Mb ram to swap! Buy ram or
this will run like a dog, constantly swapping.
> 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.
Is there anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages about them?
> 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
For one thing, look into kernel-package; it's the preferred way to
build kernels in Debian. It builds a couple of .deb files containing
your kernel and modules that you install with dpkg -i mumble.deb
The other thing to keep in mind is Storm's customizations. There's
kernel-source and kernel-source-Storm, and the latter is what you need
to preserve Stormix's pretty boot message and splash screens. Also
see /etc/lilo.conf. That's part of it too.
> 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
When I installed, the *whole* thing (Stormix) took up less than 500 Mb
including swap. In the past, I've had a working X Window Linux in
less than 50 Mb.
However, if you're looking to do serious X Window development, with
all the tools and development libraries, that may be another thing.
> 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?
At least you won't be troubled by your / being beyond cyl 1024 :-)
I'd skip the second and third swap, and buy ram.
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