[NCLUG] ipchains question

[R P Herrold]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Mark Sizer wrote:

> Thanks guys, I'll give it a whirl.
>
> I'm using Red Hat 7.0, which I believe has a 2.4.x kernel - I'll check.
>
> If not, I'll upgrade. I hate compiling kernels, but it beats having to

RH 7.0 had a 'preview' 2.4 kernel -- but 7.1 is out ... and
is really smooth ...

Hints:

1.  Dead minimum 32 M ram required -- with ram prices the way
they are pick up a stick of 128 and it will sing

2.  Pre-set up swap at least @x physical RAM

3.  Set / up with perhaps 300M ; and  /usr with 1.4G

4.  Give /tmp and /var their own partitions -- I use 300M for
/tmp, and also segregate /home and /var/spool to a different
mountpoint

... rsync is your friend for 'photocopying' an existing
installation onto a new drive:

  rsync -av --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt/build  --exclude \
	/proc /. /mnt/build/.

where the new drive and its partitions are hung below
/mnt/build

Make a boot floppy, with an initrd if the boot media is SCSI

Then fix up /mnt/build/etc/fstab to reflect the new
partitoning; fix up /mnt/build/etc/lilo.conf to reflect the
new drive

Boot from the floppy; run   lilo -v   and   ldconfig -v

Reboot from hard drive, and you're done ...

-- Russ