Re: Distro advise

Douglas Mayne wrote:

96MB is enough for Slackware. I don't know about X with the horsepower on
that CPU, though. XFCE is a minimalist window manager which might work.
This computer could function best as an "appliance" (fax machine, router,
dialin gateway, etc) or a file server like a file server where X is not
required.


Yes I was planning on using the box as a fileserver as I have several old hdd's that i have no room for in my main box. I wasn't planning on using X at all i prefer using the CLi most of the time.

Setup is complicated because of no CDROM, but there have been a couple of
recent threads which had some good ideas. I'll link here to what I wrote
(there are other entries on the threads also).

This is the simplest option (according to me) without the cdrom:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/7d128facee780cbe

This has the added complication of wanting to do a network install without
the cdrom:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/d069d997da74ac8a

This is an impressive recent online book which adds to the documentation
for slackware by Daniël de Kok:
http://www.slackbasics.org/html/slackware-basics.html

The official documentation is at the website:
http://www.slackware.com/

IMO, the linked book is more up to date.

Cool, i will check these out.

Cheers for your help!
TTB
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