On Monday 02 December 2002 06:19 am, a tiny voice in your head compelled you to type: > On top of that, I am a little confused about what I need to download from > the ftp site. There appear to be iso's and then a separate folder for 'OS'. > Also within these folders there are 2 disks for SRPMS (SRPMS-disk1.iso etc) > and 3 disks for i386. (i386-disc1.iso etc) > > I assume I need the three i386 iso disks i386 meaning Intel 386 compatible? > > I want to setup a basic Linux box running the command line eventually X. > I want to provide access via OpenSSH and run apache, php and mysql. Marcus, You will need only the 3 i386 disks to install the SRPM's are there for more advanced users who want to tailor make their applications.... Probably down the road for you, though I suppose you'll at least need to have some experience rebuilding packages from srpm for LPI.. With the 3 iso's you will be able to install a fully functional server system with or without XWindows. With KDE and Gnome, expect that you'll need 1.8 to 2 Gigs of disk space for the install, probably half of that without X. All in all Red Hat is a good distro for you, excellent documentation, easily updatable, and a great users base of very active helpful folks. Lest I forget, I believe there may be a seperate documentation disk.... Not a bad thing to have on hand. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
