If you don't have a CD-ROM, you may not be able to install RedHat. I have a box with 4mb I tried to install RH on, but it could not get the ramdisk loaded, and therefore blew chunks every time. Supposedly 8mb is minimum. For something like this, I'd use one of the floppy-based Linux distros. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Carl Parrish Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 00:03 To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Router/Firewall I'm trying the same thing only using my 486SX2 50 MHZ 420 MB Hard Drive and 4 MB of RAM I realize that with that amount of ram there is no way I'm going to get any of the GUIs to work and honesty I dont' care for any of them so I'm not worried about that but are there any firewalls that will work on this machine (I'm thinking it'll be next to impossible to get more memory for it). I have access to Red Hat or the Corel distribution (which I understand is really just Debian) . Are there better distribution to work pared down like this? I'll only be using it for the firewall. Thanks, Carl Parrish Webmaster ComputerPREP.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Dudley To: Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:24 PM Subject: Re: Router/Firewall > E-mail me tomorrow and I will send you a generic script from work. > > - Joel > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Samson, Eric > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 10:23 AM > Subject: Router/Firewall > > > > Ok, I am trying to put together a firewall/router box on my @home > connection > > and this is the hardware I have so far: > > > > Old Cyrix 6x86 200 (acutally a 166 in the fine print) > > cd rom > > floppy drive > > 32 MB of RAM > > 428 MB hard drive > > > > I am not so sure if the hard drive is of sufficient size... Once I get the > > box assembled, I want to install Red Hat 6.2 on it... Can anyone point me > > in the right direction for documentation or recommend any good books which > > can help me get started on what I need to do after the install? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss