This is a bit off topic, however it's related to a samba based network... I've got a small network (10 users) running samba on a Linux box with a HP network printer. This is working so well, that the only network problems that I have are with printers other printers "shared" by Win 95. Therefore: I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, however the minimum redhat installation is 86MB!! Does anyone know of a small distribution to achieve this? The printer would be accessed via the main samba server, therefore it needs just enough to emulate an ethernet to parallel printer box. Regards, Andrew Dennison Engineering Manager - MoTeC Australia
> I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, > however the minimum redhat installation is 86MB!! Does anyone know of a > small distribution to achieve this? The printer would be accessed via the > main samba server, therefore it needs just enough to emulate an ethernet to > parallel printer box.It should be possible with Slackware (3.4). Once I managed to setup an Linux-PC as X-Terminal on an Harddiskpatition with about the same size. Christian
> > I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, > > however the minimum redhat installation is 86MB!! Does anyone know of > a > > small distribution to achieve this? The printer would be accessed via > the > > main samba server, therefore it needs just enough to emulate an > ethernet to > > parallel printer box.Check out the distributions list: http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html There are a few floppy installations that might be usable as well, since you don't need any file system support - configure the floppy install, format the harddrive, download Samba, install & configure. I couldn't find one floppy based system from an Italian fellow - search on the Web for "linux floppy" or something - and the Linux router project may or may not provide the tools to make a print server. Bill
> This is a bit off topic, however it's related to a samba based network... > > I've got a small network (10 users) running samba on a Linux box with a HP > network printer. This is working so well, that the only network problems > that I have are with printers other printers "shared" by Win 95. Therefore: > > I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, > however the minimum redhat installation is 86MB!! Does anyone know of a > small distribution to achieve this? The printer would be accessed via the > main samba server, therefore it needs just enough to emulate an ethernet to > parallel printer box. > > Regards, > > Andrew Dennison > Engineering Manager - MoTeC AustraliaSamba works great as a print server. I'm running an old 386 25MHz and it works flawlessly. I'd suggest buying a slightly bigger disk though. Print files can be relatively large and 80MB is a bit tight. It doesn't have to be huge - a couple of hundred Meg will do. I've installed slackware before on an 80Mb disk. Gets difficult trying to compile programs though. ------------------------------- Paul Cochrane | Dundee Limb Fitting Centre | ============= |-------------------------------| | 133 Queen Street | | Broughty Ferry, | | Dundee, Scotland, UK. | | DD5 1AG. | | Phone: +44 1382 730104 | | Fax: +44 1382 480194 | | E-Mail: paulc@dth.scot.nhs.uk | -------------------------------
> This is a bit off topic, however it's related to a samba based network... > > I've got a small network (10 users) running samba on a Linux box with a HP > network printer. This is working so well, that the only network problems > that I have are with printers other printers "shared" by Win 95. Therefore: > > I was planning to turn an old 486 with an 80M HDD into a print server, > however the minimum redhat installation is 86MB!! Does anyone know of a > small distribution to achieve this? The printer would be accessed via the > main samba server, therefore it needs just enough to emulate an ethernet to > parallel printer box. > > Regards, > > Andrew Dennison > Engineering Manager - MoTeC AustraliaHi Try Debian.. if this does not work, try Slackware. There are also some very small linux-dists at sunsite.unc.edu - some of them fit on one disk! Greetings, Florian
the minimum RedHat linux setup is 86Mb But for some reason the minimum Caldera OpenLinux setup is 46 Mb. Buy another CD. cheers, hugh.nelson@ausinfo.com.au
I've actually got two other linux servers at the moment, a P120 with 64M RAM and 6G HDD as a samba / email server and a 486-80 as firewall and gateway to our ISP. Therefore this other computer only needs to be a lpd print server for the front office printers. Regards, Andrew Dennison Engineering Manager - MoTeC Australia