On 09/07/2016 04:45 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
I'm trying to turn a P3 computer with 128M ram into an nfs server so as I can access my pata drives. I made an os on suse studio based on 13.2 but it goes into a kernel panic as soon as the kernel starts.
I still have a single PIII in production, it's running 11.3. I think it's going to be tough installing it in only 128Mb RAM, maybe if you add swap. I would still have thought any 32bit version should be fine, but you need more RAM.
I have a few small factor machines from the previous century with P3s. They are provisioned with 1Gb and were intended to run W/XP which they did nicely. Yes, they can run Linux, I have suse 11.2 on them. if I try running a GUI it seems to take forever to do anything and lets face it, it takes a long time to boot, and yes they need to swap. Swap swap swap swap swap. if I turn off the GUI and shove in a second network card they make an acceptable dedicated firewall, DNS server, dhcp server and email gateway with filtering. Adding more memory, which is difficult given that its only 2 PC-100 slots, abates the swapping. You might look at one of the smaller installations/kernels. I only know of Puppydog Linux as a distribution, but some of the Linux based LiveCD diagnostics I have on USB sticks as small as 4Gb work just fine. They are stripped and purposed, so won't serve as a NFS server as well. You might check sites like https://livecdlist.com/ and others for a dedicated - aka otherwise stripped - NFS version. I also have under my desk a - also previous century - p4 laptop with 1.25G running 12.1 that I use as a file server and MariaDB server, LDAP server for the web site that rans on my well provisioned Dell Optiplex 755 four core Q6600. I recall back in the days of SCO UNIX installing it on a 512Mb Data General PC. I left it chugging after feeding it floppies while I went to the kitchen and made a coffee. (see "The Herc and the F-15" in airforce humor) and came back to find that the machine had blown up; as in emitting black smoke and being completely non-functional and having fused parts. I've never tried installing on 128Mb since. Seriously, I consider a 1Gb a minimum if you are going to do any 'server' things. realistically, I can head downtown to "Hi-tech Row" on College west of Spadina and find many stores that are selling ex-equipment/decommissioned PCs, the things that have been cycled out of corporate use as CCA allows and to meet the demands placed by later model Windows inability to run on early hardware brings about. There are plenty of machines in the CDN$100 range there, desktops and towers, that could run XP but now W/7, or W7 but not W/8 or W/10. Any of them run earlier model (320but) Linux pretty damn good. My neighbour threw out a nice AM motherboard; the CPU had dies. I replaced that, added $40 of RAM, a $20 DVD drive beside the CD drive that was there, a $50 1G drive from a store on "hi-tech Row" and LO! A server! For the most part, I have a 'Closet of Anxiety' ether old equipment from work or stuff people give me that's I hope you're not wedded to that 128Gb machine. There's so much else you can get for very little expenditure. I'd recommend ebay, but shipping chassis is expensive. Memory, CPUs, that's another matter :-) -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org