On 5/5/2000 19:01, Chuck Seiders at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?
True. I can top that. I have a 486 DX4/100, 32MB RAM, no HD, CD-ROM (not
hooked up, just there), boot from floppy. Using Edge FirePlug
(edge.fireplug.net) as the firewall. Have 2 3c509 cards installed and a
trident video card. Works like a hot darn! Edge is designed for Cable modems
and xDSL setups. I'm on Cable myself.
>
> 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?
My first question is why did you partition it that way with 2 swaps like
that. Unless you have lots of memory and need to separate the swap space,
don't. Don't think that contributed to your problem as other have reported
problems installing, but it's a weird setup for what you describe. The only
time I had install probs was with the beta cycle. The release versions have
all been good. Do you have the latest ISO (version 1.4)?
For the NICs, are they the ones you list above? You may need to compile the
kernel, I forget what comes default with Storm. Linuxdoc.org is a great
resource to look for info like that. Also check out kernelnotes.org for
information as well.
> 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.
In fact, DON'T put X on the firewall at all!!! JUST DON'T DO IT! If this
whole set up is for the firewall machine you describe above, then check out
Edge. It's a much better solution than what you're trying to do.
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