On Wed, 24 May 2000, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 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
Waste of CPU for a firewall :). Mine has only serial line access. If you
add xauth and the minimal setup for xclients you can shoot GUI windows
back to your desktop, though.
4MB RAM is probably going to be a problem. I think even debian wants 8 MB
at this point. My box is actually using 16MB and it doesn't do much (
unless someone cracked it :).
> 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
Neither of those'll drop on a 4MB box without some serious help. Look at
the Linux Router Project,
www.LRP.org, if you have the skills and the
patience to get it to work. There are probably a couple of other similar
projects.
> like this? I'll only be using it for the firewall.
You should be able to get debian in on the 4MB, but it really should be a
min of 8 MB.
One way to cheat all of these guys is to install with the disk in a
different 486 making sure to include support for anything you'll need in
the destination box, then move the hd.
ciao,
der.hans
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