See bewlow.
At 02:55 PM 2/28/00 +0200, Clive Crous wrote [in part]:
>re my earlier mail,
>
>It was recommended to me by a friend that I perhaps opt for a different
>distribution.
>
>What I want
> fast,functional,no GUI,compact
>
>I want - in this process of setting up a server - to learn the way it's done
>properly, I dont want to have to go through layers of apps etc, I want to do
>it at it's most basic level. I want to wade through howto's and sit hours &
>hours figuring it all out. I don't want it all done for me. But most
>important, is I want it too be stable, once set up ( _If_ I do it correctly
Well ... in theory, any distribution ought to be installable this way. In
practice, the more commercial ones are harder to set up in minimalist
fashion -- though you could see if (say) RH or SuSE has a "small server"
options.
In practice, this is the kind of setup that Slackware is VERY good at
providing. You can do it with Debian too (my personal favorite), but it's a
bit harder, because all the standard install packages insist on installing a
lot of emacs stuff -- fine it you want emacs, but a nusiance if you don't.
...h that info, can someone recommend a distribution :)
>
>He recommended as a fast/small distro I try Stampede linux ( am I the only
>one who's never heard of this one ? )
Fast yes (it's a Pentium-only distribution). Small? Dunno. Reliable? It
never seems to have gotten out of alpha. I think the URL is
www.stampede.org, and Cheapbytes sells (or once sold, at least) a Stampede CD.
><OT start>
>--PART 2-- (the saga continues) ---
>
>A friend of mine was given an old a 486 server box, and is also trying to
>set up something similar to mine but cannot get the machine working. It has
>on it an LCD display of error codes, as opposed to the crypting beeps ;) -->
>Does anyone know where He can get hold of the 486 error codes ?
There is no such thing as "486 error codes". They are BIOS specific --
Phoenix, Award, and AMR used different ones. In the past I've been able to
turn up the Phoenix and AMR ones via the usual search engines; Award ones
are more customized to the individual m'bd, and you may have to find a
manual for the specific m'bd to get them.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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