Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 19:31 schrieb James: > Hello, > > I'm building several gentoo firewalls for friends out of old > pc parts (586 class).... > > I've built a few but, now I need to try and slim down > the firewall to a minimum of disk usage. > > I have a bunch of old 1G and 2G IDE drives. > > This firewalls support 3 to 4 ethernet sements > with the forth being a second dmz or to isolate > devices such as vonage and other experimental hardware... > > so what tricks exist to get a minimalistic gentoo firewall > to exits on 1G of disk space? > > Any good wikis are most welcome. > > Right now, I'm looking a GNAP. These > systems mostly do not boot from a CD drive, > but maybe I could put /boot and swap > on the HD and the rest is read from a read > only CD drive? > > > other ideas are most welcome. >
Did you try the gentoo wiki? Here are two starting points: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo Maybe you can adapt this for /usr and other data that changes seldom or never: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VERY_small_Portage_Tree_with_SquashFS_and_UnionFS
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