[wplug] Installfest Q's

Elwin Green bekitemba at excite.com
Fri Jul 12 14:59:44 EDT 2002


Hi all,

I would like to attend tomorrow's installfest, and have a couple of prep questions.

I have a 386 with 8MB RAM, two 200MB SCSI hard disks, and a NIC. Can this machine be set up as a personal webserver for a home network? Would that require anything more than a kernel and apache?

Also, I would like for all the machines on my network to eventually share processing power while working on setiathome work units under Linux. Is this doable (not now, but ever)? If so, will the installation on my 386 require special configuration?

I have several CDs that I can bring in if anyone wants to use them; but they're all older distros: Mandrake 7.0, Red Hat 5.1, and Caldera Open Lite 1.2. I also have a distro called Peanut 8.4 (I think it's based on Slackware), which I downloaded onto CD, but the CD isn't bootable. 

(If it matters, the other machines on my home network are a 486 with Win98SE, a 586 laptop with WinME, a 586 with Win95/Mandrake 7 and another 586 with Win98SE/Mandrake 7.)

Thanks!

E.

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