[MRTG] Re minimum Linux for BB & MRTG
Stephen Bates
Jerry Shenk wrote:-
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In answer to your question, I've had it running fine on 5.0 and 5.1. I
preferr the installation on 5.1 a little. I don't think it matters.
On a related note....what's the minumim machine I could get MRTG and BB
running on? BB's small, just like MRTG so it's really a how small can
Linux be question. I'd like to start baselining a network with a SNMPable
switch and they have a 486/66 w/12 megs of RAM and a 120 meg HD. If I
loaded RH51 without any X, screen stuff or games, would I make it?
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My BB server is a Compaq SystemPro/LT, 483/33 upgraded to 586/133, with 8MB
RAM, 200MB IDE disk and an SMC Ultra Ethernet card. It is busy running BB
for about 43 devices, (all ping tests, many with services, and 1 with Linux
agent, 1 with HPUX agent and 1 with Netware agent). The box is BBNET,
BBPAGE & BBDISPLAY al in one. Don't know if it could handle MRTG as well.
My attempts to load Red Hat 5.1 on an identical box used about 190MB,
without X. RH 5.2 wouldn't fit even without X. No doubt you can tailor the
install to be smaller, but you need more knowledge and time than I had. I
will be upgrading the disk before I install Red Hat (or maybe SuSe, if it
looks good).
Currently the BB box runs "Slackware 97" at least that's what's written on
the CD my son gave me!
uname -a gives Linux kurrefdns2 2.0.29 #8 Tue Feb 11 19:09:07 CST 1997
i486.
My suggestion is try Slackware 3.5; the CD is cheap and should fit into 90
MB without a lot of work; less if you trim some of the "extras" out.
hope all goes well
Steve
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