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d_kendal · #16 02-27-2003, 06:00 PM

Kevin - if you haven't seen it yet, Mandrake has put out the 9.1 RC1, which has some interesting sounding things, like automatic network configuration, NTFS resizing, and the latest versions of KDE (3.1) and Gnome (2.2 RC2). I'll wait til RC2 at least before downloading this one though so they can get rid of any major bugs (although there probably aren't many, Linux alpha versions are usually more bug free than any of MS's actual releases..)
It's too bad you can't get DSL, but in average situations it's not much faster than cable anyway.

Mike - this isn't really gonna be a good long term hosting solution, but I think it'll be ok for a while. if I start getting a lot of feedack that people can't access the sites, then I'll start worrying about switching to a host.

- David

winwintoo · #17 02-27-2003, 06:37 PM

David, I'm looking forward to your experience. I was thinking about hosting a site on one of my machines just for the experience. I don't have a static IP address, so my hosting so far is intermitant and I have to send out a notice of the new address every time I boot

From what I understand, most of the pieces/parts are already installed or free download from Apple, so I won't be investing much money to get it done.

I'm glad I have folks like you to learn from.

Take care, Margaret

KevinBE · #18 02-27-2003, 06:40 PM

Thanks David. I was looking at that just recently. I think I will download 9.0 tonight, like you I will wait on 9.1 until RC2. I think I will bring it up as a intranet server to test my Web site on. That should give me enough to practice with. I don't really have a lot of spare time to play with something new, but I am going to do it anyway.

d_kendal · #19 03-05-2003, 03:47 AM

well I've finally done it, I got my hardware and I'm almost finished building up the server, all I need to put in now is the hard drive and CD drive. I'm going to be using one of my 2 hard drives from my main system in the server, so right now I'm going through the oh-so-fun experience of going through many months worth of overdue clean up and backups of everything on my HD's (which is about 40GB's of data in total.. it's a good thing I bought a 100 pack of CD-Rs!)

if all goes well, I'll be loading everything up and trying to get my networking going sometime this coming weekend.
Kevin - we're not gonna have to wait any longer! I just checked the mandrake page, and they released 9.1 RC2 yesterday. I never actually got to burning the CD's of 9.0 when I downloaded it last week, so now I'm just downloading the 9.1 RC2 overnight and I'll stick with that since it's pretty much the actual release, and if there's any bugs that they find I'll make sure to keep the system updated.

- David

KevinBE · #20 03-05-2003, 05:31 PM

Hey David that's great. I hope you get the drive maintenance done and get 9.1 up before I do. I also downloaded 9.0 but didn't have time to burn the CDs. I guess I will download the 9.1 RC2 tonight. Maybe I will have time this weekend to try it out. I'm going to set up an Intranet server to do my Web site testing on at first and then see where it takes me.

d_kendal · #21 03-06-2003, 02:47 AM

it's looking like it's gonna be a while before I've got time to do much with the server, I've got a lot of work shifts coming up and as much as I'd like to play around with it, getting my sattelite, DSL, cell phone etc. bills paid and finishing up all my schoolwork has gotta come first. I just realized that I've got an Apache book (the "Apache 2 Bible") which I got last year sitting around which should come in handy when I actually get to the configuration part of everything.

- David

KevinBE · #22 03-26-2003, 09:36 PM

David, I thought you might like an update on my attempts to load Mandrake 9.1 rc-2. I have tried to load it twice, the first time it finished without an error but xwindows wouldn't run. The second time everything looked OK everything came up like it should but eth0 was configured wrong and it took my network down. So I am not impressed with their pre-release OS. I did get a e-mail from them today anouncing the official release of 9.1. I guess I will download this release and try once again to get the server up.

d_kendal · #23 03-27-2003, 02:18 AM

that's dissapointing news about the release candidate, I hope they've cleaned up the issues for the release, in the past I've had good experiences with other RC's. I'm downloading the three 9.1 ISOs right now, I tried to do it a couple of days ago when it was released, but I couldn't connect to any of the FTP sites (or any I could connect to were so overloaded I could only get a 2 or 3 kbps - impossible for downloading anything ISO sized..) I still haven't got my server up yet though, I just haven't had much time at all lately, I still have to get a couple parts and get everything to work.

- David

KevinBE · #24 03-27-2003, 05:03 PM

I tried to get them too and found the same problem. It may be a while before we are able to download them. I guess everyone was waiting on this release. I guess there are a lot of people who don't want to pay for the software. I don't have a real need so if I had to pay I would pass.

d_kendal · #25 03-27-2003, 11:48 PM

I downloaded the ISOs succesfully last night, the site I was downloading from was this one here:
ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/iso/
I just noticed today on the download page (here) they've added a whole bunch of new mirrors, so maybe you'll have better luck now.

- David

KevinBE · #26 04-10-2003, 12:02 AM

David, I have changed directions. After getting a good look at the capibilities of Netware 6.0 I am going to bring up a Novell server instead of Linux.

Netware 6 has evolved more toward Unix than ever before. It has Apatchie imbedded all through it. 90% of the administration tools are now HTML based. It has, like Linux, all the components of a file server and Web server.

If I can get a strong enough box to support it I will bring up a Netware 6 server.

d_kendal · #27 04-10-2003, 01:58 PM

Hey Kevin,

I'll be interested to hear how that works out for you! I'm not sure what the name of the book is (I can try to find out) but I know there is a book out there that has a full version of netware for a limit of 4 users, but I'm not sure which version it is, I'll let you know if I can find out what it's called.

- David

KevinBE · #28 04-10-2003, 02:43 PM

I have the software I need already. I am in a Novell School this week in New Orleans. I have a 5 user copy of Netware 6 that I was given to use in the class.

I just don't know if the PC I plan on using is strong enough. Time will tell.