Okay, I’ve finally started working on the replacement for my server in earnest again.

I’ve got the host up and running with RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and GSX Server 3.1, and the VM (which will be the actual Internet server) with Fedora Core 3.

I must say, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at RedHat’s offerings. Fedora is a garbage sale of all sorts of essentially useless services. Or, to be more precise, services that might be useful in certain cirumstances but, as a whole, most people will probably never need. So, it’s been interesting learning what these new things are and then disabling them.

I still have to fine tune the host (RHEL also has many of these mostly unneeded functions), and I’m definitely having problems with the guest. I can’t, currently, compile the kernel since I’m missing some header files for some reason. (Even though those files exist on my other installs.) Time to blow it away and reinstall. But I do have an ever increasing firm grasp of what I should be doing.