Rod, As Terry pointed out, you don't need to run X to run a firewall; for that you just need a firewall script, the iptables package, and a kernel that supports iptables. (unless you use ipchains or even ipfwadm; a bit old though) Then link to it so it starts at boot, or perhaps whenever the connection comes up.
The first thing you will want to do though is to stop X starting up (you did say, no graphics card ?). You'll need to boot to single user mode or similar (type "linux single" at the boot prompt; a redhat 7.3 person might be more helpful here) and login as root, remove the links that are starting gdm or kdm from /etc/rc/rc3.d (?) or better yet, just uninstall gdm and/or kdm (rpm --uninstall gdm (?)). If you do want to run X, try installing a nice thin window manager like WindowMaker (wmaker) (my favourite ;-). It will run with very little RAM. patrick (I forgot to cc the list first time I sent this...) On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Rod Elliott - Hush Solutions wrote: > Hey Guys, > Just hoping to get a bit of a helping hand with a server set up of Red > Hat Linux 7.3. Ive set it up on an older Pentium I machine in the hope > of�bringing it back from the grave, and the installation appears to go > fine, however upon booting, KDE or GNOME fails to run, citing memory > problems (not enough) as being the cause. The machine also doesnt have a > graphics card...and this may be the obvious cause of the problems. > � > Can someone point me in the right direction on this. Does RH 7.3 require > more RAM in order to run, a graphics card perhaps? I have the shell > running fine, but it's X that appears to be struggling with the current > hardware. What other options are available for aged and lesser quality > hardware? All i really need is a box that will act a firewall between my > win2k network and the internet. > � > thanks in advance > � > Rod. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
