A few Linux questions..

Glockage · 06-09-2002, 03:00 AM

I have a few questions about linux, could anyone answer them?
[list=1][*]I need a version of either Slackware or Redhat that takes up almost no hard drive space, and will run on a 66 mhz 486 processor, with 8 mb of ram? [*]Is there a HTML/FTP server script that will run in bash? (the bash with out X running)[*]If there is a HTML/FTP server script that will run in bash, will it run on a 66 mhz 486 with 8 mb of ram?[/list=1]

Thanks for viewing/answering my questions.

-Glockage

finegan · 06-09-2002, 03:39 AM

1. Slackware 7.1, with anything important upgraded. I ran a webserver for a long time off of that distro, a 66mhz 486, 16Mb RAM. There is a special boot disk for it low-mem.i taht should hack 8mb no problem.

2. Server script? If you just mean a server, of course, slack 7.1 unfortunately had wu-ftpd as the default, a security brick of cottage cheese. Pro_FTPd can be snagged as a .tgz off of linuxpackages.net, so no worries about spedning 12 hours compiling it. The apache defaults for Slack from back then have it pretty locked down. No PHP or SSL or SQL or anything enabled by default, so no worries.

3. The limitation, if you cut your background processes down to something rational, like 30 or so, is almost always going to be the bandwidth as long as you're not running dynamic content and don't need to hammer the disk with a lot of multiple requests. I did the Slack 7.1 install in 700Mb with a full Glibc, gcc, all the daemons, basically just no X and no Emacs.

Cheers,

Finegan

Glockage · 06-09-2002, 02:12 PM

Ok, but when I said "script", there was this Redhat Linux book that said it came with a "Apache server script", so I thought all servers would have a "server script".

And about the Slackware 7.1 that is going to go on my 486, all I want on it is just bash (no x) with all of its commands, gcc, gcc++, vi, and the "server software".

The only thing I want to use the 486 for is to be a server. Nothing else.

My 486 has a 2 gig hard drive, think that would be enough space?

-glockage

Mara · 06-09-2002, 02:15 PM

2 gigs will be much more than you need. Your installation should take 500 megs (with documentation), not more.

Glockage · 06-10-2002, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by finegan
There is a special boot disk for it low-mem.i taht should hack 8mb no problem.

Where could I find this "boot disk"?

-Glockage

finegan · 06-10-2002, 12:59 PM

It should be on the CD under the bootdsk folder from the top level, but if you just want to dd the image to see if it will boot the 486 correctly, get it here

Cheers,

Finegan

Glockage · 06-10-2002, 02:05 PM

Now that I have the boot image, how do I copy it to a floppy disk?

-glockage

neo77777 · 06-10-2002, 02:37 PM

if you're in linux then
dd if=/path/to/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

Glockage · 06-10-2002, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by finegan
1. Slackware 7.1, with anything important upgraded. I ran a webserver for a long time off of that distro, a 66mhz 486, 16Mb RAM.

I went to www.slackware.com and the newest version is 8.1. Should I download that, or should I download 7.1 like you said?

finegan · 06-10-2002, 05:34 PM

The newest version is Release Candidate 1 of 8.1, well actually Patrick is up to RC-2. The scheme went: 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 and after a year... 8.1 any day down. The newer kernels are going to run like sludge on an 8mb of ram machine, for that matter so is the 2.2.16 kernel from 7.1. If you run a default install of 8.0 you'll end up with 2.2.19 which should be okay, but 8.1 isn't out yet and will probably be more than that 486 can handle. Regardless, make the decision quickly, as soon as 8.1 is actually released, you won't be able to get access to any Slackware mirror for about the next week.

Cheers,

Finegan