A debian network
Ok. A friend has an old 486DX-2 66 with 16 megs of ram and a Diamond
Speedstar video card he wants to unload cheap. I was thinking about
buying it from him and using it as a dedicated web server ... when I
return to school in a month I'll have a direct 10mps line. The problem is
this: I'll only have that one 10mps line, and access to only one IP
address. I was hoping to connect the 486 to the net and then run my other
machine (Pent 166) through it to the net ... can I do this without a
dedicated router, maybe using the 486 as a router and putting the Pent on
a new, local network? Will a 486 be up to the task of being a router,
web server, mail server, etc. all at once if I don't use if for any
computes?
Secondly, I don't have a CD drive for the 486. Is it possible
that I could get enough of base and nfs installed via floppy to do an nfs
install from the pentium? Or is it hopeless, and should I just move my
CD drive to the 486 long enough to do the install?
Will
harpo@udel.edu
lowe@eecis.udel.edu
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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