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| 319349 | 2005-01-30 08:45:00 | A friend of mine is looking at setting up a web/mail server on an ancient Pentium1 machine, and has tried setting up a Windows one without too much success. I have suggested that a basic Linux installation with Apache etc. might be an easier option. Does anyone know of a small downloadable ISO Linux distrobution specifically designed as a webserver/mailserver for old hardware, with everything preconfigured? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 319350 | 2005-01-30 09:10:00 | I strongly suggest that you try out tinysofa classic server (http://classic.tinysofa.org/). It's an i586 (and later) optimised server distribution. The setup is fairly simple and you can select to install a range of server applications, including Apache and a couple of mail servers (Courier MTA and Sendmail come to mind). Once you've installed it, you pretty much just have to start the services and sit back - well that's what I found, anyway. You might like to do a bit of configuration, but I found that the installation process configured Apache to work with PHP and MySQL, which was very convenient for me. I don't know how much stress you'd be looking at putting on the server, but I have it installed on an old Cyrix 166MHz processor with 96MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive. It does the job nicely and boots relatively fast, considering it's a Linux distribution! ;) Edit: I should add that the latest ISO for tinysofa classic, Rio.i586.iso, is approximately 360MB in size. |
agent (30) | ||
| 319351 | 2005-01-30 09:27:00 | Pretty much any distro will do it fine. There are a few dedicated server type ones, but I'd say more importantly get something suited to the level of noobness. They will all need configuration anyway in terms of the domains it accepts mail for, or the domain the webhosting is running on etc. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 319352 | 2005-01-30 09:42:00 | give one of the small distros a look, like damn small linux for example... I'm currently playing with Morphix which appears to be fairly modular, so you can customise it to whatever spec you please... |
whetu (237) | ||
| 319353 | 2005-01-30 19:22:00 | Thanks guys. | somebody (208) | ||
| 319354 | 2005-01-31 01:39:00 | I just tried installing TinySofa classic, which went ok. However, on first (and subsequent) boots, I get "Grub error 15" and it just freezes, before it even starts to boot. I might give the CD to my friend to try to see if he has any luck. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 319355 | 2005-01-31 03:21:00 | lists.gnu.org | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 319356 | 2005-01-31 04:07:00 | I haven't done anything other than finish the install and follow the instructions to restart. Could the fact that i'm installing to HDC be the problem? (ie. secondary master hdd)? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 319357 | 2005-01-31 08:07:00 | Did you install Grub to the MBR of your hd0/hda/your primary hard drive? If not, you probably should, and make sure that everything gets set up correctly. I don't remember if you can manually configure your bootloader in the setup process, but the installer should take care of that anyway. |
agent (30) | ||
| 319358 | 2005-01-31 08:14:00 | Cheers Agent. I didn't want to touch my hda drive as it is on my computer which I use quite often. I might try plugging this 2nd drive in as HDA and see if that works. I installed the boot loader onto the mbr of hdc (which was the drive I had installed TinySofas onto). I also tried installing it to hdc/1 (primary partition on hdc). Both did not work. Creating a bootdisk didn't work either - it crashed the install and forced it to quit. |
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