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Re: [edlug] Thursday? Holyrood?
owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx wrote on 10/05/2004 17:34:13:
>
> Thanks. I tried activating swap (this was using IPCop) but it made no
> difference. My own contribution to feature creep would have been the
option
> to use the existing partitions, including swap, and have the chance to
tell
> the installer which kernel modules were necessary. It seems to load
modules
> for all the network cards it knows, rather than just the one you have.
IPCop and Smoothwall (which are both brilliant) were designed to be
installed by pretty much anyone and to be pretty much foolproof. If you
really want to contribute then why don't you make your suggestions to the developers? They (IPCop/SW) are not about giving the option to use
existing swap space (eh?)
Why not just accept that they will install modules you don't need? It
makes it so easy if you want to change hardware later as you just have to run "setup" as root without doing a re-install (which takes about ten
minutes!) After all, you'll have loads of room for them on that massive
500M hard drive. ;¬)
>
> Anyway, I have decided to start from the other end, with a pentium
machine
> with enough RAM and work my way down to 486s
Good. Even though (really) old machines will work why bother going as far back?
Mine's a:
celery 400
256M RAM
2 x Compaq 3132 dual 10/100 NICs
1G HDD
Behind a 5861 router.
WAY over the top but I'm going to convert to booting from compact flash
and also want to do content filtering (kids)
All the best
Norrie
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