Re: Is 300 Meg's enough

From: Brian E. Lavender (brian@brie.com)
Date: Tue Aug 24 1999 - 10:10:58 PDT


Yes, 300 Megs should be plenty. Just don't kitchen sink the install
and you should be ok.

brian

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:43:46PM -0400, Andrew Wergedal wrote:
> I have a LAN in my house that I use to connect 2 Win9x machines and 2 LINUX
> machines. After trading some hardware, I'm planning to use one LINUX machine
> as a server.
>
> Linux Server specs:
> -=--=--=--=--=-
> Name: Gate
> CPU: 486 25Mz
> RAM: 16 Mg
> HD: 310 Mg
> Modem: USR 56k external
> NIC: 10/100 Linksys
> (Gate is running Redhat 5.2 currently, I'll be upgrading to Mandrake 6.0)
>
> I need 'Gate' to handle the following functions:
> dialup connection to my ISP
> email (sendmail or qmail)
> proxy & firewall
> DNS
> IP Masqerading
> Web Caching (SQUID)
>
> How much HD space do I need?
> Is 300 Meg enough? 600 or 1.2Gig?
> I've read the How-to's but there is no mention of HD size recomendations or
> restrictions. Gate will become a dedicated server.
>
> My workstation running LINUX-Mandrake is doing DNS and dialup, but I haven't
> done any of the other things.
>
> -- Andy Wergedal
>
>
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Brian Lavender
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