Dave,
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, "Dave hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Happy birthday, reptar!!!
I'll pass it along. Actually since he is the firewall he has likely
already seen it!
> I'd like to do the same thing with my 10-year-old Gateway
> 486SX 33MHZ 8MB RAM w/170MB hd.
Sounds like fun. I got "reptar" in 1992, my first PC. It ran 386BSD
(anyone remember that?) for about 6 months, then linux ever since.
I don't think you'll need anything special to run Linux on your
Gateway. Just don't run or install X and you should be OK. Make some
swap (or a swapfile) just to be sure. Try things out with a boot floppy
to see how things go.
In fact, 6 years ago I remember running XFree86 + Mosaic on a 486 (50
MHz DX?) with 8MB of RAM. It worked OK, a bit too much paging but you
could work on it.
> I've seen info here and there but no succinct, step-by-step
> instructions for a box with this little in the way of resources, by
> current standards. Any pointers?
There are some mini installation "linux router" type projects out
there. For a firewall, I'd suggest going with one of those.
I see Ben gave some references.
My firewall setup is just a barebones redhat 5.1 install. I just did a
custom install and said "no" to most of the stuff (e.g. no X11). It
fit easily in 80 MB. Since it had "huge" 300 MB disk that left a lot of
space for logs on the /var partition.
I also have a tarball of a extremely pared down RH 5.1 install I made
fit into about 12 MB. It has the basic shell stuff, ppp, telnet, ssh,
sshd, lynx, and that's about it. Useful for network backups or an
emergency linux environment. Most people these days would use a
linux-on-a-floppy for these tasks I believe. But I haven't to tried any
of those distros yet.
Cheers,
Karl
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