light OS

[Eric R.]

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
>> Help, my firewall box is burning out and I need to
>> replace the MB, but I also need to keep it up until
>> I have a functioning replacement. Well, I found this
>> old 200MHz Pentium Pro laying around, but can only get 16MB to be 
>> recognized by it. So I need a light OS to use to install on it, and am 
>> looking for suggestions. My Mandrake 9 and RH 8 won't cut it, and I 
>> don't have
>> a gentoo burnt for Pentiums.
> 
> 
> That's pleanty of RAM to run LEAF, which can boot from a floppy, 
> hard-disk, CD, or flash, runs out of RAM once booted, and is 
> specifically geared to be a firewall/router system:
> 
> http://www.leaf-project.org/
> 
> I suggest you use Bering, which uses the 2.4 kernel and the excellent 
> shorewall firewall scripts for stateful filtering:
> http://www.leaf-project.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=904&page_id=21

Charles, I finally got this working on the Hitachi laptop!  133 mhz, 16 
mb ram. 3com and linksys pcmcia. Really slick!!  Thanks for your help!!

E