Router/Firewall

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
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-----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 <joel@silverw.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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 <SamsonE@simplexnet.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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