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| 306301 | 2004-12-21 09:36:00 | Hi, I have an old P2 400 that I want to make into an FTP server, just on my local lan (shared wirelessly with a neighbour) . Can someone reccomend a linux distro to do this easily with, and if possible post a link to d/l it? I have most of the latest, eg Mepis, Fedora, Mandrake, but all of these will be too intensive, and id rather run an old version of KDE/Gnome, than one of the other window managers . . . Is Damn Small Linux any good? Or Vector? Reccomendations please? Ash |
Ash M (46) | ||
| 306302 | 2004-12-21 09:59:00 | what about smoothwall, but that is more of a distro for a server, so thats probely what your not after. but it might be what your after. what can you do with a FTP server? what are your plans? is it sharing files? i wouldnt know because i dont have a sever yet, i wanna get my old p1 turned into a internet gateway or something........ |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 306303 | 2004-12-21 10:16:00 | I have most of the latest, eg Mepis, Fedora, Mandrake, but all of these will be too intensive, and id rather run an old version of KDE/Gnome, than one of the other window managers... Is Damn Small Linux any good? Or Vector?For a file server, you do not need to install a GUI (KDE/Gnome etc) so this will mean your machine should be able to handle a text mode only install of a reasonably new distro. Alternatively, Fedora Core 3 comes with XFCE as GUI, which is a light weight window manager and you can use that in conjucntion with a server type installation. Having a newish distro means more kernel support for your wireless lan. I've heard both DSL and Vector are good for older machines ... but a 400MHz isn't that old ... :p |
Jen (38) | ||
| 306304 | 2004-12-21 10:48:00 | Go on, you know you want to use Gentoo! I got a Stage 3 install up and running on my P2 400Mhz w/256MB Ram in about two hours! It rocked! From there, just: emerge pure-ftpd Done! If you really wanted you could emerge apache, samba, openssh etc, Otherwise there's the like of gcc-3.4 and my personal fav: Reiser4! The installation guide for Gentoo is simply the BEST and once you've used it, I doubt you'll go back. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 306305 | 2004-12-21 11:19:00 | Go on, you know you want to use Gentoo! I got a Stage 3 install up and running on my P2 400Mhz w/256MB Ram in about two hours! It rocked! From there, just: emerge pure-ftpd Done! If you really wanted you could emerge apache, samba, openssh etc, Otherwise there's the like of gcc-3.4 and my personal fav: Reiser4! The installation guide for Gentoo is simply the BEST and once you've used it, I doubt you'll go back. Cheers Chill. You on the payroll yet Chill or still in unpaid service :D (You've almost got me interested, especially as I've almost broken Yoper again) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 306306 | 2004-12-21 11:56:00 | Well, you may as well.... Stage3 install would be a good idea if you want to skip the inital wait for Bootstrap etc.... Just be prepared to be without your PC a short while unless you want to download Binaries of everything |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 306307 | 2004-12-22 09:07:00 | P400 with 256M RAM should not be too much of a problem for most modern distributions - Fedora Core 3: With GUI: P400 with 256M Without GUI: P200 with 64M See www.fedora.redhat.com John |
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