[ale] Lack of Funds

[nlucent at mindspring.com (Nick Lucent)]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, MarNuke wrote:

> and a case for 30.  But with a budget of 200 dollars i don;t have the
> funds to buy another hard drive.  I have a cd-rw.  What i plan on doing
> to removing the hard drive out of my httpd, ftp, pop3, and pppd server
> and replacing it with a cd which i would boot everything and run
> programs on.  I have a brand new 40x cd that is capable of booting and
> reading cd-rw.  My questions are:

If its httpd, ftp, pop3, and pppd, all of those right files to the disk,
you wont be able to update web pages, or the files available for ftp. You
wont be able to send or receive mail because both of those write to the
spool. and pppd uses a lock file which it wont be able to write.

Nick

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> 1)  can i have operate the server with out a swap disk?
> 
> 2)  how do i setup linux where it will boot from the cd-rw?
> 
> 3)  Is there anyother issues i haven't consider??
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> /\/\ar/\/uke
> marnuke.dhis.org
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