On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:48:47 +0100 Thomas Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:34:31 -0800 > Ian Truelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from > > a CD so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be > > no need to even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have > > to look at one of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a > > good idea? > > I think that's a really good idea. There are a lot of HowTo's on the > net about linux-on-cd. > I used a HD for var/log and config (did this on a readonly mounted > partition). > > In my opinion, Gentoo would be a very good choice for cd-linux because > of it's easy directory-install-system. > > If you need some help, I'll look for my howto's, can't find them > know... > I'd appreciate that. One of the things that I was wondering about was how to deal with logging (was considering remote logging) and how to deal with the cache files for dhcp and ddclient (was considering a ramdisk for that). I would like to see what you came up with. -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org Signature key (742B740D) available at pgp.mit.edu
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