I will be using the box as a firewall as well as a router. It is a little early yet to see if I wanted to be a server. It is slow (pent 75) and if I do decide to go that rout, I will buy a faster machine. So, I am going to use the box for 1) a router 2) 1 firewall 3) a box to learn how to use Linux. This is my first time installing Linux, and am finding it quite interesting. My mager is Computer Science at Texas A & M. I am currently a softmore. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what each package does in the main install menu (what each group of packages are for and how they are used). Thank you for your help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <showell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:11 PM Subject: Re: new user with slackware questions > If your only using the box as a firewall, you need very little. Its > actually recommended to only have what it takes to boot the box and in > that case a floppy would work. > > If you plan to use this box as a router/firewall and server, you'll need > to decide what services you plan to run like ftp, http, telnet, will you > be using nfs at all, aand so on. > > You can pretty much not bother with any X apps which will save you space > for sure, news readers and such unless you plan to telnet into the box to > read mail and so on, and there's like lots of other stuff you won't need. > > Go through the packages during the instllation and look at each and decide > at that point. You can always add or remove what you don't want. > > Contact me if you have other questions and I'll be happy to help as much > as I can. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
