[Gllug] About to Reinstall...

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:44:55PM +0100, Ian Baillie wrote:
> I am about to reinstall Linux on a machine which I intend to use as a Samba
> server offering authentication to Win98/Win95/Winnt4 clients.  I will also
> be setting up an intranet on this machine to practice Perl scripting, PHP
> and mySQL and/or Postgres.
> 
> This will be my main linux machine for me to learn Linux on.
> 
> Should I install X Windows?
> Should I install the above packages while installing Linux or afterwards?
> I intend to set up a separate internet gateway machine, what packages to I
> require for this?  - (I would also like to use this as a fax and email
> server)
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

If you have the room install everything. The point is that you don't know
what to install until you know what it is, and you won't find that out 'till
you have installed it.

How much room ? Depends on the distro. If you have 3GB that should be
more than enough for you to install everything and have room to play in.

-- 
Alain Williams