[wplug] Installfest Q's

[Zach Paine]

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

Excellent!

> 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?

This is certainly doable, although I don't know how good apache performance 
will be on a 386.  Probably ok for personal use.  You will only need a very 
minimal installation.

> 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'm not sure about this one.  Are you going to run linux on the other 
machines?

> 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.

Please go ahead and bring all of them.  More choice the better.  As far as 
your installation, I'd lean towards something that is highly configurable 
such as slackware or debian.

Hope to see you there!

-Zach