Hi,
Well, I setup my first Linux box at home the other night. Yay!
For anyone fearing the setup process, lemme give some reassurance....
I carefully picked my hardware, based on the hardware compatibility list at
http://www.redhat.com (click support) and the install, using Redhat 5.2, was
a piece of cake. The install routine detected all of my hardware, including
the network card (no SCSI card on the machine, though) and in around 25
minutes I was up and running with Apache, a few GUI's to choose from and
much more: the package I bought from Redhat included the entire CPAN archive
and a few other disks full of goodies.
The install manual is pretty easy to understand and reading chunks of it
prior to doing the install is something I'd recommend for someone new to
setting up Linux.
Now, my next task is to get the network between the Linux box and the NT to
work. I've never set this up before, so I've been rummaging through
newsgroup archives digging up info. NT comes with no manual, only some
crappy Word doc and an inneffectual help module (what do you expect for $250
for the boxed version of NT Workstation: instructions?)...
so far, what I've gleaned is that I should be setting up a class C network
between the machines (coaxial ethernet cable), using IP addresses between
192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.0 with netmask 255.255.255.0. I'm confused about
gateways and WINS now. Any light someone can shed would be appreciated. Oh,
I also figure I'll need to use Samba so the Linux box will show up on the
network in NT, but gotta research that some more.
Jack
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