On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chad R. Henry wrote:
> >
> > > On 6 Jul 2000, at 12:58, Adam Wendt wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm putting together a box to be my firewall/gateway to the
> > > > internet. Right now I only have a 85meg hard drive so I was hoping you
> > > > guys could give me some suggestions on what distro/OS (FreeBSD, NetBSD
> > > > OpenBSD etc..) might work for this purpose (and fit on 85megs). I'm on
> > > > a dialup so I'll need PPP and some form of ipmasq/nat plus support for
> > > > whatever network card I put in there (probably some old ISA card).
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas or suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > = Adam =
> > >
> > > Check out Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com). It's a floppy
> > > based distro w/ PPP and ipchains/masq support.
> >
> > That might work if I had a floppy drive (which I don't) ;)
> >
>
> Another alternative is the Linux Router Project:
> http://www.linuxrouter.org/
>
> It's floppy based, but you may (should) be able to set up the machine
> to do a remote boot to load the OS.
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-Boot.html
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html
>
> jeff
That looks interesting and I actually have an EEPROM card. Now my problem
is I don't have a burner for it...
I might try putting FreeBSD on this drive because the FreeBSD FAQ says you
can install a minimal system on 60megs of hard drive space.
On a side note, I have some RAM and I'm not sure what type it is. Its
smaller than SIMM and it fits in my socket 3 mobo, anyone want to take a
guess at what type of RAM it is and/or what sizes it might be?
= Adam =
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