On 11/30/01 at 1:28 PM, Syed Irfan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have to setup a computer that will have to do smtp mail > forwarding and act as a router
Alright. > so is it better to use the LRP on harddisk or i have to > use the floppy images ? Up to you. Floppy images are more common, and any time you get hacked or the system gets out of whack, just push reset and start over. Hard drive gives you faster bootups and persistent data. However, if someone hacks the box they can rewrite your data. If you system gets out of whack it can require a reinstall. If you have a floppy (and take it out) you can avoid these things. > how to boot from nics ? This more technical, and not commonly done or used. I assume (always a bad idea) that you are talking about diskless workstations and booting from the network. On the other hand, this is often NOT what people are talking about. Oxygen can load packages over the network; I don't know about others. All LEAF/LRP variants can boot with network information gathered via DHCP. > and there are so many different images like the > Eiger/Materhorn/dachstein which one do i choose ? This is a FAQ detailed on the LEAF site at http://leaf.sourceforge.net. Mainly there are three: LRP: the original. This will potentially go away as the original author goes to a new CDROM based distribution. Dachstein: this is the most recent in the Materhorn/Eigerstein tree. Oxygen: this is a new variant which was based on LRP 2.9.4; it's very heavily modified. The main reasons for each are: LRP: firewall/router - the Original. Dachstein: firewall/router - and much more heavily supported than LRP, with more features and easier to use. Oxygen: a much more general distribution, with the ability to use as a network diagnostics tool or a system rescue disk. Oxygen is possibly the most "UNIX-like" of the three (at least I tried :) I'm the one who cobbled Oxygen together; so if you've any suggestions, let me know. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
