installing an ssh server in redhat 5.1

[CTho9305]

I put RH5.1 on my 486 (pretty minimal install). I want to put on an ssh server, but there are soo many dependencies, all which require never versions of other packages (need a newer rpm, glibc, all sorts of stuff). Any ideas on an easy way to install it? or where to get an older version?

 

[freebsddude]

Is there a reason that you have RH 5.1 ?
I would suggest upgrading to RH 7.2 first.

 

[CTho9305]

It is a 486. It has 8 meg of ram, and newer versions of linux don't install in under 16 or 32 meg (even if they run on 8, the installer needs more ram).

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< It is a 486. It has 8 meg of ram, and newer versions of linux don't install in under 16 or 32 meg (even if they run on 8, the installer needs more ram). >>



The best answer is to get more ram. There are a couple of problems with installing an old sshd. First it would probably be ssh v1 only. Second there are several other flaws with both SSH.com's sshd and OpenSSH's sshd that were fixed in newer versions.

 

[Nothinman]

Install Debian =)

You can probably compile a new version of ssh and the libs it needs, but getting everything to play nice would take a very long time and probably wouldn't be easy considering how old 5.2 is.

 

[CTho9305]

debian needs 12 meg. a friend just gave me a box full of simms, so hopefully some of them will be bigger...

 

[Nothinman]

Needs 12M even for potato? I've never had a machine below 32M so I never noticed.

 

[jhu]

you have several options. one is to to go to openssh.org, get the latest sources and compile them.
another option is to go to www.linuxrouter.org and download their one-disk linux images. once you get that installed on a hard disk, download the sshd package and install that.

 

[manly]

RPMs are available from http://www.zedz.net

Back before the distros shipped with the legal & open-source OpenSSH, I grabbed the RPMs from there (i.e. ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/redhat/i386/)

Whether that is a good idea is a debatable.

 

[CTho9305]

well, for now i'm hunting for ram (with... limited success).

linuxrouter needs 12 megs, and doesn't appear to be very useful beyond a router. of course, i'm not really trying to set up more than apache anyway....

 

[freebsddude]

I would consider buying some recycled SIMMs or a cheap motherboard with some memory, or figure
out the brand of your motherboard. The smallest SIMMs these days that I have found are 16MB,
although if you go to your local used computer stores, you might find 4/8MB SIMMs.

I think your time would be better spent learning about the cool RH features IMHO than trying to
struggle with installing old versions of RH on 8MB of RAM.

Good Luck!

 

[CTho9305]

<< I would consider buying some recycled SIMMs or a cheap motherboard with some memory, or figure
out the brand of your motherboard. The smallest SIMMs these days that I have found are 16MB,
although if you go to your local used computer stores, you might find 4/8MB SIMMs.

I think your time would be better spent learning about the cool RH features IMHO than trying to
struggle with installing old versions of RH on 8MB of RAM.

Good Luck! >>


its a gigabyte ga-486um. gigabyte doesn't respond to email. I have rh7.1/7.2 running on my main box (vmware / dual boot). i think i'll give linux from scratch a try... see if I can set up something custom. either way, i figure i'll learn a fair amount.