Hi everyone.

I have an outdated P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 2 HDD's (1 13 GB, and 1 60 GB) and sound card/vid card dont know right now but dont matter.

I want to install a Linux OS using only a command line interface to power an NFS server (I want to be able to dump mp3's videos, pictures, ISO's etc. to the 60 GB HDD which I plan on having one ext3 partition on which would be probably mounted under /nfs in Linux.

Now, I have narrowed it down to 3 Operating Systems, SuSE 9.1 Pro (with no gui but networking tools), Fedora Core 2 and Debian Sarge (I cannot get woody to work with the network card on this machine no matter what I do). Out of the 3, I would say the most stable in my opinion is Sarge for desktop use. Is it the best choice for the server?

Also, from the command line, how would I go about doing this. Is there NFS utilities to set it up that include wizard type things. 2 of the desktops connecting to the computer will be running SuSE 9.1 Pro and the other SuSE 9.0 Pro (my lil bro doesn't want to bother upgrading yet).

A cable comes out from my wall into my cable modem. This in turn connects to my router through a CAT5 Wire. Then, the router has 4 ports connecting to the 3 desktops and the 1 possible future server.

Is this computer powerful enough to do what I want it to do? A step by step guide would be really good. Anyways, any input would be greatly appreciated.

those hardware specs are fine...

by the way, have you considered slackware??

Ya, I'm going to give Debian a shot and Slackware I am going to try next (assuming Debian fails).

So if they are cnnected in the manner I have specified, how would I go about setting up the NFS server and how would I go about connecting to it from say my SuSE 9.1 Pro machine? Anyone know the proper commands. Windows is not going to be involved at all (I dual-boot it but don't plan on connecting to my server with it). So I don't need Samba, can anyone tell me how I would be able to do this?