New Router
By: Compubomb @ May 09, 2004 @ 8:18 pm
Whelp, the other day my dad gave me a heap of crap pile from some friend of his. The computer
specs: HP zetta 200 MHz 32mb sim memory with 2 GB drive.
I
exchanged the 2 GB with a 13 GB Seagate and I replaced the old broken Intel nic with a new realtek +
davicom. I attempted to install debian, but I realized I was sorry out of luck because I'm terrible
at compiling kernels which is why I run mandrake (just so I can avoid such scenarios. Anyways, after
debian did not work, I went with smoothwall, which I couldn't get working, and said, screw this shit
and went with mandrake. I installed a very dry installation of mandrake, came out to all of 300mb of
files, mainly for a few daemons I'm running. I ran into a few problems afterwards which were related
to some sort of issue with sshd, when i stay logged in for too long on that box it seemed to hang
and so the internet connection would die. I just avoid using sshd too much on it now 