Re: [Sheflug] 486DXs and P75s.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Oh yeah...absolutely no danger of even bothering to run X on these
system...I'm planning to have 12Mb or so on these beasties, and just ssh
into them once I've set them up.
The box that will be used as an OpenBSD testbed will probably have
32-40Mb max.

Only daemons I will run will be ssh, erm...did I mention ssh?

My firewall runs MasqDialer server and djbdns as well as ssh. It ran
happily in 12Mb (gone a bit decadent at the mo with 40Mb :-).

I should hopefully get some 540Mb drives so I can stuff a couple into
the cases to give a good bit of storage. OpenBSD 2.7 is 90Mb without X.

Baz.

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:41:56PM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> >  Is the 486 gonna be OK for this? My guess is it will be fine...just wonna
> > check.
> 
>         Yeah, it's fine. Problem might be getting hold of hard drive
> that fits your back-up needs and motherboard! We have some hard drives
> around that can't be easily fitted in the 386/486 we have. A couple of
> notes of warning: unless you have loads of memory, don't bother with
> X && KDE||GNOME. XFCE is reported to run fine, but over here, we just
> use the console. If you are going to have a samba server, consider
> mulinux as distro of choice (small hd footprint), or else go for a
> minimal installation of either debian or slackware. Remember, too many
> daemons summon problems...


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