[thelist] Tutorial - step-by-step Linux install to make server

Hugh Blair hblair at hotfootmail.com
Fri Mar 21 02:06:04 CST 2003


> Personally I would go to distrowatch 
> http://www.distrowatch.com/ and pick a
> nice distro with what you need.

Could do - but had Red Hat 8.0 handed to me on a platter.
One problem with this box - can't boot from CD. So any distro
must initally be bootable/installable from a floppy start.

> I'm currently running mandy 9 - I've found it to be far more 
> reliable for a web development box than red hat -

Thanks - will check it out.

> BTW - why not have your linux box acting a nice firewall also?
> the proxy servers available are very very good.

Good thought - and may go there eventually. But my router is
doing a great job so I'm trying to start win only one function,
an internal system on my LAN, but looking like a web server.
Thanks for your help,

Hugh



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