Nothing important

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Greg,
  Give me a call, 716-553-8525, I got a lot of old stuff around here, Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Bob Stockdale IV
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:50 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Nothing important


Gregory J.Neumann wrote:

> Anybody have any old hardware in the pentium class they don't need/want?
> Willing to sell cheap?  I'm trying to cobble boxes for my school-age kids
> and just can't seem to get enough scratch for drives, motherboards, etc.
> My last drive of more than 300 Meg quit week before last.  Got it in
> 1994, 540 Meg Maxtor, and I DROPPED the darn thing trying to move it from
> one box to another!  Motherboard seems dead anyway.  :-(  Awfully hard to
> fit even Linux on a 250 meg drive anymore, especially w/ Xfree86!
>
> Anybody work with Postfix?  I set it up in February and it ran well,
> until we got ISDN and I couldn't get the Ascent Pipeline and the Linux
> server to talk. Seems like it's pretty good for a small operation, and
> configuration is sure easier to understand than Sendmmai!  I couldn't
> figure out the spam filtering aspects, but not it's not surprising as I'm
> really a total newbie when it comes to scripting.  It looked as though it
> should be a fairly simple exercise to anybody who knew *nix stuff.  Just
> mention it as Sendmail configuration has been under discussion lately.
>
> -Greg Neumann
>
>
>

Have you considered LFS (Linux From Scratch)? You don't need a full
distribution for an older box with small drives. Check out their HOWTO
from www.linuxdocs.org . If enough people are interested it could be the
topic of a NFUG meeting. If you do this though, you might want to look
at the LSB (Linux Standard Base) as well, to keep things compatible with
the rest of the Linux installations and for binary program installations.
Bob