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John Hasler
Hi, lspci output shows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2580 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2582 00:1b.0 Clbutt 0403: Intel Corp...
I've been testing all these distros in VMware sandboxes.
Debian has ten thousand things I don't need, combined with a package installer which seems determined to offer me all those things with no distinction between the importance of Ipmasq (for my app, that is) as related to Xeyes. I confess, I'm lost in the details. And I'm not sure livecd's play, because I'd like to set it all up in a VMWare machine, strip it down to all fit on the USB key, including correct and autogenerated fstabs if at all possible.
Black Sun and said: You might want to change the "???" there to "wrote" in English-speaking newsgroups if G2 is putting those characters there automatically. Welcome, I guess...
Maybe it's not possible. I can get it onto the USB key and fiddle with the fstab later, of course, using a livecd boot to get the disk mounted.
features seem to exclude something like DansGuardian.
The Natural Philosopher 15 years of linux, and the concept of rotating logfiles is still not in the kernel? Or is that a comment on open source softwares added to the system after the...
Feather Linux won't even finish installing, and since DG has commecial options they don't sanction
Gentoo is monstrous in a way Debian is not, in having "excellent documentation" but still requiring people to set up their own fstabs and compilation flags. And there doesn't appear to be a clear way to strip it for installation onto a small-footprint USB key.
So, if debian is all I need, then here is what I need:
-- Small (eventually) headless machine, two network interfaces, 512 MB RAM, no swapfile, OS on 512 MB USB flash HDD, no activity to the flash HDD once booted, except for rare configuration changes. (Presumably I can maptmp and logfile directories to a ramdisk, forex) -- eth0 is the "external" interface, and needs to request and receive a DHCP provided address from Comcast -- eth1 is the "internal" interface, and needs to host DHCP address ranges, manage NAT (which I've gathered is built-in to kernel 2.4), and carry the static IP address of 192.168.2.1 -- Squid -- DansGuardian -- eventually, a way to direct the kernel router to prioritize VoIP traffic of any kind before most other kinds of traffic, so that my wife doesn't get her call dropped if I start a large download or something like that.
Suggestions? I'll even buy an O'Reilley book or something like it, if people think it would help me wrap my head around what I've forgotten in the last 10 years about Linux.
Rob