On Friday 26 April 2002 11:14 L, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 21:30, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > Derek,
> > I am trying to set up a firewall machine, that is all it is going to do
> > is be a fire wall for our office. I am using RH 7.2 and tried to select
> > as little stuff as possible it still stuffed 330m of stuff on the HD. How
> > would you go about reducing that down to only that needed to run
> > the firewall?
>
> Honestly, I would install Debian.
>
> RedHat has lots of stuff it likes to install, even for a base distro. A
> base Debian distro is well under 100MB; I believe it's somewhere around
> 50MB. It's very stripped down to only the stuff necessary to have a box
> working and able to compile new apps (and you can even remove the
> compiler and whatnot if you wanted and that saves even more space).
>
> If you absolutely must use RedHat, and a perfectly good reason is just
> because you're more familiar with it, PARTICULARLY for a firewall where
> you have to know what's going on, then you'll just have to go package by
> package and if it's not something necessary, axe it.
I am going to get me a Debian distro and give it a try. I use RH because
that is what I have used most of the time and is probably what we will use
at the office, but need to try some of the others.
Is there anywhere around town where I can get the CD's?
-- Chuck Hast KP4DJT kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."
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