On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:54:22AM -0600, Shawn wrote: > I'm going to be installing Debian stable (woody?) stable is still potato. > in the next couple of days > on my firewall/gateway machine. Dual NIC's, Pentium 120, 32MB ram. Is there > anything in particular I need to watch out for? No. :) > I plan on running IPtables on this box instead of IPchains also. No X > windows. I'm not sure, but then I believe you will have to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. I think stable still uses 2.2.x > I've installed Mandrake, Slackware (my typical distro), SuSe and tried one > instance of RedHat 6.x but not a Debian install. Just looking for pointers, > pitfalls to watch out for etc. Installing isn't bad, especially if you've done Slack before, but not GUI. apt-get is your friend, as has been said before. -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.