Not Amiga, but PC...
I recently got my hands on a Pentium 166MHz with 96 megs of RAM and a 2.5 gig hard drive, so I figured I'd set up a small web server on it to play around with.
At first, I installed WinNT4 with Apache and MySQL and everything went fine - slow, but fine. But then I realized how limited I would be in the remote administration part. I'm going to put the machine at work and remote desktop and similar products will be dog slow over the encrypted VPN from my home machine, so I figured I'd install Linux and run thttpd on it instead of Apache.
I'm fairly good at Linux, I'd like to call myself a power-user or at least an advanced user. Of course, I'm still living in the late nineties since that's when I learned Linux (Slackware).
Since it's an old computer I figured I'd go with an older distribution. I've got Knoppix, RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 8.0 (I think) at home so I settled with RH6.1.
Now the fun begins.
I go through ALL the packages in the package list and select the ones I want. Still, RH installs a friggin' SMP kernel and a bunch of other useless stuff like PCMCIA support. Well, the PCMCIA support is easily removed from the init and I can rebuild the kernel later on. I can live with having the other useless software packages installed, they're just using some disk space and there's enough of old hard drives to go around.
Then I realize that neither ssh nor sshd is installed, so I decide to download them from redhat.com. Oh, but noooo, my system is too old!
I don't know what I'm going to do with the machine now. It's far too slow to run UAE or Amithlon, Windows is not an option because of the flaws in administration and it seems that most of todays Linux distributions are too bloated for a 2.5 gig disk and 96 megs of RAM.
ARRGGHHHHH! :destroy:
Any ideas?
