On Monday 27 December 2004 09:03, calvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Thanks to Jason, Kassad and Askar for responding to my email. I've only played with RedHat before, and mostly forced myself to use command line than the GUI interface. Maybe its time to try other Linux flavor. Now, this FW I want to setup for my home network, I would like the least software loaded on this as this is a 32MB, PII 266, 2.5GB computer. I am thinking IPTABLES, Tripwire, SNORT, or will that be too much for this machine ? Related to this, where can I find information of those required to load during OS installation for these 3 apps to work. I know that SuSE has a minimal installation option that will easily fit on your drive. Without the gui 266 should be more than fast enough since your internet connection will be the slowest link. RAM could be tight though. SuSE offers a text based installation for PCs with RAM/Video limits. You can select the minimal installation option then hand pick any other files you wish to add/delete. It uses RPM packages so it will check for dependencies before it loads files. Worth a look... I used to run the SuSE text based system on a similar system without any problem. I used the SuSE YAST2 installer, deleted everything, added back IPTABLES, Tripwire, SNORT, rsync, and my favorite editor and had it solve dependencies. With all the libraries/utilities/etc it installed about 170 RPM packages. Excluding swap and temp space, it took about 600Meg of disk space. -- ..don dhughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx White Plains, NY
