Topic: base (barebones) hardware requirements

[Duncan]

I am interested in this product and just wanted to confirm the hardware requirements for a barebones installation for a 1/2 dozen light e-mail users.

On the web pages for a basic setup (Category 1) it indicates a P60 , 32meg, and a 3.2 G HD as minimum.

I have an old P133 with 32Meg collecting dust in the closet, but the harddrive is only a measly 1.something. I know that other distributions would easily fit on this so I dont know if this 3.2G HD is a typo (it also appears as the base for the Cat 2 setup) or it truely needs that much space.

Could anyone post a note if they have successfully installed on lessor HD resources?

Thanks in advance!

[Gordon Rowell]

Duncan wrote:

> [...]
> I have an old P133 with 32Meg collecting dust in the closet,
> but the harddrive is only a measly 1.something. I know that
> other distributions would easily fit on this so I dont know if
> this 3.2G HD is a typo (it also appears as the base for the Cat
> 2 setup) or it truely needs that much space.
> [...]

I have e-smith 3.1 running just fine on a P90 with a 1Gbyte disk - well over 500Mbytes free after the install.

The 3.2Gb minimum allows plenty of room for user files and minimises support
questions of "Why did my disk fill up - you told me 1Gbyte was enough?".

If you don't have many files on your box, a 1Gbyte disk will work fine.

Gordon

[Charlie Brady]

Duncan wrote:

> I have an old P133 with 32Meg collecting dust in the closet,
> but the harddrive is only a measly 1.something.
...
> Could anyone post a note if they have successfully installed
> on lessor HD resources?

My test machine is a 486-66, 16MB RAM and 850MB hard drive. It
works fine, but obviously there isn't a lot of room left over for use as a file server.

Charlie

[cryblood]

My home e-smith server, used entirely as a gateway/mail server, is running on a Pentium 200MMX with 64M ram (That's what I had on hand at the time, not for any other reason than that) and has been running great for a couple months with only a 512M HDD.  I don't remember how much HDD space I had left over after install, but it still has plenty for now.  I believe you can use the df command to see how much file system space is free, and you will want to do so from time to time just to make sure you're not running out esp if you have users that will use it as a file server to store their personal files.  One of our servers choked the other day (ok. ok...  it was microsoft boy's server (NT... I don't claim em as mine)) because of lack of disk space.  We found almost 5G. (yes folks, thats G as in GIG) of MP3 files on it.  I STILL can't believe microsoft boy wouldn't let me get the guy fired!!!  (The machine is a production machine at work)

well... anyway... It should work fine...

cryblood

[cjm]

I also set up E-smith at home -- I used a 486DX 66Mhz with 16MB ram and a 400 MB hard drive.  Has enough resources to experiment with -- too few to put into service at work. BTW, for modem sharing purposes only, it is just as good as the 586 150 Mhz and 266 Mhz machines I used at work.

[Geoff]

Hi,

All i can say is that p133 will more than work for your application. I have installed 4.0b6 and I am using maybe 300meg. That is with a webserver, email, FTP, and gateway all running. It ran fine on a P.90 and it runs great on my p166MMX. I'm sure it runs great on a 486 to but I can see the lack of PCI on the older 486 machines to be the major draw back.

-geoff