At 09:42 28/11/2000 +1100, you wrote: >Hello World, > >Ive got an old 386 machine - an SX I suspect thought I dont know for sure >- with >4meg ram, 20mge hdd, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, ega & 8-bit soundblaster >card. I want to make this machine into a firewall for an up-coming cable >or adsl >connection. It doesnt have to run any web proxy or mail server or squid >cache - >just firewall between outside and inside. > >1. Now, can you make a linux install on a 20mg drive on a 386 which will do >this? - and what distro is best suited for this? Could be done I suspect, probably best checking out one of the "linux on a floppy" distros, cLinux and LOAF are two I can think of. There are heaps of these things out there. Fitting a real distro on 20 meg would be hard if not impossible. >2. What networking cards should I get? (ISA? PCI? - assuming there are enough >slots for each...) 386 wouldn't have PCI yet. Only ISA. >3. Where can I get these cards from? Any computer store :) >4. Will doing this increase my Internet latency much if at all? Negligible I'd think. >5. Since the box doesnt have a cd-rom drive - would it be best to install off >floppies or do a network install? For full distro network install, but see question number 1. >6. Is there anything else I will need that I havent mentioned? *shrug* Brock Henry *********************************************************************** Brock Henry - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things. ************************************************************************* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
