Re: [TCLUG:18539] Tiny laptop firewall distro suggestions, please

[Brian Toberman <tobytoo@black-hole.com>]

You might want to try something called LRP, Linux Router Project.  I beieve the distro
they have now is called Materhorn, it's a firewall router designed to run on a 486 w/
floppy 16M ram and no HD http://www.linuxrouter.org is the addy.

Daniel Taylor wrote:

> Nah, use the Linux Router Project Distro, fits on a single _floppy_.
> 170 MB would be like a lake for it.
>
> Daniel Taylor                Embedded and custom Linux integration.
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> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Gabe Turner wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Can you kind folks suggest some distributions I should try that will
> > > actually install on this tiny drive?
> > >
> > you're kidding, right?  Slackware, of course! :)  You can easily get it under 100
> > MB by just installing the base disk sets.  However, if I were you, I'd go with
> > NetBSD if you're going to use it as a firewall.  It can be extremely small and
> > still fully functional.  Heck, I just put NetBSD on my IBM WorkPad z50, and it
> > only has 128 MB flash card! :)  NetBSD w/ base packages and compilers would be
> > less than 170 MB easily, though it wouldn't fit on my flash card, so it's some
> > where in there.
> >
> > Gabe
> >
> >
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