Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Hobby class mac TCP/IP server

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 10:04 -0500 7/16/99, Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote:
>>Any tips or comments on:
>>
>>1. Partitioning LC630 for this purpose.
>
> You don't say how big the hard drive is.  In general, I would expect that
> you'd need at least a 2 gig hard drive for what you're talking about - 1
> gig for each side.  I could be wrong about the space requirements for the
> linux side, though.

you might be able to get away with 500 MB for each. And, depending on how
much MacOS work you plan to do, say 300 for MacOS. So minimum 1 gb drive
should work.  But look at the installation instructions for the *nix.

>>2. Version of mac linux to use.
>
> Well, it's an LC630, so LinuxPPC is right out. ;-)  There are ports
> available for mkLinux and one or two of the BSD's (Open and Free, i
> think?).

MkLinux is also PowerPC only. Look into NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org).
Also look at http://www.esperance.com/apple-flavored-unix/

>>3. Server software to install.
>
> Unless you want to *pay* for server software, your choices are
> a) Personal Web Sharing on the Mac
> b) Apache on Linux
>
> There may be some other options on the mac side (MacHTTP? if it's still
> available and usable?), but the two above have the advantage that they are
> usually (or can be) installed as part of the OS install.

Under *nix, Apache is _the_ choice. Accept no substitutions.

>>4. Is their a maclinux port of perl?

Perl is ubiquitous. Perl is everywhere. Perl is all.

> I hope the LC630 was free...

An LC630 huh :-)
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