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Article #43Re: help please
From: John Danielson, II
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:17
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:17
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robert jeffares wrote: > I have been trying to set up linux in a box with a p100/32mb which will dial > the ISP and handle mail and IP connections for a network of 5 pc's at our > school. > > we need local mail pc to pc and mail collected from the isp. > > each pc may access the net from time to time. > > we had a command line system running using debian which constantly dialled > up as soon as the system disconnected. > > we tried every kind of configuration to no avail. > > so we decided to try again using mandrake because we had the cd's > > we don't seem to have enough grunt to run mandrake > > so can someone recommend which distribution we can use which will work, > enable us to run mail and connection sharing, and can live with the p100 > 32mb. [there is room to put dram in but no $'s to buy it!] > > or do we have to go to build from basic kernel. > > > email replies direct to robert@pnn.org.nz as well as the newsgroup > appreciated. > > if this is the wrong place to post my apologies. > > Robert Jeffares > Laingholm > New Zealand > > Mandrake 8.0, with almost no GUI at all (maybe Gnome, but definitely no KDE). Or SuSE 7.1. Or RedHat 7.1. All with almost no GUI, you will be doing this from the Command Line with so little RAM. You do know that ISPs on dialup connections do drop the connection from their end for security and bandwidth reasons, right??? And that if you set a server up to poll for email every so often it will happily dialup if needed to do so to get this goal accomplished???? John.
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