Hi I am starting up a dedicated server running on my LAN and I have DSL I am going to install linux on a 166mhz pentium with 64mb of ram. I am kind of new to linux but I know alot of different commands but I am afraid slackware is too complicated for me to know how to install. Is it? Also is it possible to mount a network drive through linux to another LAN computer with an 80 gig hard drive because this machine only has 2gigs storage. One last not DONT WORRY I AM NOT SELLING SPACE ON THIS SERVER! LOL dont think im trying to start my own webhosting company on a 384kps upload speed via DSL ;). Any help or places I could go to read to help me get started would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks!
Aaron

Let me get this right, you were selling dedicated servers, ie this thread:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81728

But you cannot install Slackware???

if you read that post a little and saw mainarea's post, he said, "Just to let people know, the server is from FDCservers.net (kingcomp)." now i don't know if dallas works for them, but i don't think he does, i think he plans to give up ownership for it or have someone pay him and then he pays FDC. in any case, he did not install the OS or setup the box, so his question is honest. next time, don't be such a smart ass to people who are asking for help.

Slackware believe it or not is quite simple to install if you just read the manual. Many people come to the conclusion that it is difficult but the manual explains the install process very clearly. If you follow the manual, everything should go well.

You can use NFS to access data on other computers.

Thanks logic! You are correct, I canceled my fdc server just because I learned after a month it wouldnt be worth paying that price when I had no customers, and really wanted to learn unix/linux by command line to expand my knowledge. This is just going to be used to play around with setting up things without a cost to me, and possibly hosting a few personal pages or for friends and family & for pictures for ebay.

There are numerous other topics posted I could have linked to. I found it a little surprising that Aaron couldn't install Slackware but made a number of offerings which did not clearly state he was reselling FDC's products.

I was trying to just sell my server from FDCservers.net at one time, and was going to make a little money on it because I had already paid setup for it, I no longer have this server. I do know how to install game servers, and things like that but I do not understand why you brought up me at one time trying to sell my server when I dont even have it any more.
MATT SHUT THE HECK UP I AM NOT HARMING YOU SO DONT THREAD CRAP!

-Aaron-

MATT SHUT THE HECK UP I AM NOT HARMING YOU SO DONT THREAD CRAP!

I think that was a little uncalled for. He just noticed something suspicious and wanted to see what was up. There's a lot of people who rip people off around these forums and he was just making sure that you weren't one of them. He asked questions, that's all. He wasn't harmful in anyway.


Anyways, http://www.slackware.com/book/ might help you.

He tried to do the same thing before. Trying to rip someone off? I'm not even SELLING ANYTHING anymore. All I did was ask a question that is why I yelled.

Yeah, well he saw the post of you selling something, he didn't know if you still sold anything. It was just kind of weird that you were selling a server and you didn't know how to install Slackware. But he didn't know all the facts, he does know, there's nothing to fuss about anymore.

Why use Slack? Is this a workstation or a server? I'd stick with something minimal and easy to maintain (a Gnome developer told me that when I was first starting). You can have the best disto in the world, but if your not comfortable/familair with it you may well have trouble.
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I would suggest checking something out like www.clarkconnect.org (http://www.clarkconnect.org/) for a easy to install and fairly easy to manage distro (with some other features to boot!). My first "server" was a Mandrake Firewall, but the MFW distro isn't updated so freaquently (didn't support Netgear 311 eth card). And of course there's Redhat or Debian (mmmm..apt, or Xandros for an easier Debian base experience).

If its your first EVER linux install then a red hat install couldnt get any easier.

Debians install is meant to be a bit iccy, never installed debian myself, but I have red hat and its very easy.

Redhat is easier to install than Windows :)

Pretty much everything is easy to install these days. OS's like Solaris even bring up netscape for you to surf around on while it's installing everything. The installers for any large distro are fairly advanced, even openbsd is easy to install now. All linux flavors I have used have graphical installers to help you through ,(slackware/redhat/mandrake/debian/suse) plus of course solaris and QNX for fun, BeOS is all GUI as well. While you can run linux/bsd on a p166 with 64 megs of ram, its going to be pretty slow unless all it does it route packets or something. I have a p166 laptop with 80mb of ram, running slackware, and use it for irc, (g)aim, light websurfing (opera is quite fast), and as a terminal to my coffee table, er cisco 7000.
I don't know how much experience you have with non windows os's, but it doesn't really matter.. I'd suggest trying to install something like slackware a few times in a row, using different options. Usually for a first installl it's a good idea to go with all the packages; this laptop hasa 2.1 gig HD, and the extra 700 megs or so left over from a fairly average slackware install is plenty for what it does. I might suggest, with such a small drive, that you only use one partition, / . Normally this is a terrible thing to do, but it will save you a lot of grief while trying to determine what normal mountpoints are going to take up X amount of disk space.
If you get stuck, google.com is your friend :) and don't be afaid to hose it a few times, that is where you really start learning :)

best of luck

Debian = hell
redhat = :)

Got linux installed, but what I need to know now is how I can possibly redirect to a file shared linux partiton on another computer with a bigger hard drive, and link it to the home directory for more storage since this computer only has 2.1 gigs or something around that, so I need more storage for it. Please tell me if this is possible & if it is how it can be done.