Re: [SLUG] Older i386 looking for buff firewall. Must know how to handle bad packets...

[Matthew Dalton]

Ken Yap wrote:

> You need enough memory to hold the ramdisk and to run the utilities that
> configure the firewall, and have enough left over for the packet buffers.
> Also as the ramdisk is often compressed to fit onto the floppy, you need
> enough memory to run bunzip2 or gunzip.

I found that Tom's rootboot disk doesn't run in 4Mb for the same reason
- it needs the ramdisk.

But, what if Aaron were to somehow 'install' a floppy-based distro to
his 20Mb HDD? Has anyone tried doing anything like this before?


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