light OS

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric R. 
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: Charles Steinkuehler
> Cc: Brian Densmore; KCLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: light OS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 plenty 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!!
> 
Well it seems LEAF is the way to go. It'll be
nice, as I'm using shorewall now. And maybe in the future 
I can burn a prom and stick it in the MB and somehow
point the boot to that. I'm not sure quite how I'll accomplish that.
Or even if I can. Although I'm sure I can find a way to at least point
a floppy to it, and since I can disable writing to the floppy from
the BIOS [nifty little feature :) it will be a fairly secure solution.
Installing and configuring without a GUI doesn't scare me, 
since the current FW doesn't have any GUI, as it shouldn't.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Brian