[luau] HDD-less Linux

[Dustin Cross]

MonMotha,

Do you have PPP and dial-on-demand support on your floppy?  I need to set
up a system to share a dial-up connection between 8 Windows PCs networked
together (until our DSL gets installed in a few weeks).  I have a 486DX50
or a 486DX4-100 to choose from and hopefully there are enough working parts
to get one complete system.  I was looking at LRP, but I though I would ask
about your floppy linux.

Dusty


> Current specs:
>
> Kernel: 2.4.19-pre6 (I've got another one on 2.4.19-pre7, but it's
> proven to be a bit unstable), all the netfilter patches you can cram in
> LibC: uClibc-0.9.11
> IPtables: CVS as of about a week or so ago
> Busybox 0.60.2
> IPRoute2 (latest)
> iputils (latest)
> udhcp 0.9.6
>
> The kernel supports vlans, trunking (bonding), ethernet bridging, and
> QoS.  The appropriate userspace utilities are also there.  It would
> make  a great "demo disk" to show off what a linux firewall can do
> (ever  wanted to download 5 ISOs and play UT with the same ping as when
> you  weren't downloading?  it's quite possible...).
>
> No SSH on it yet as I haven't gotten around to compiling it and making
> it fit (the floppy is getting to be a bit tight as the kernel is rather
>  large with all the networking code).  It was obviously designed as a
> floppy router/firewall.
>
> I'll put the image up for all to get when I can fix my server.  Until I
>  get it back up (which will probably be late friday or maybe tuesday if
>  not friday), I can send it to people upon request in a personal email.
>
> I also have a utilities disk that has a dialog based frontend on it,
> though it mostly just reads what's in /proc for you.
>
> --MonMotha
>
>
> Dustin Cross wrote:
>> I am interested!  What kernel are you using?  What tools do you have
>> on the disk?  SSH?  IPtables?
>>
>> Dusty
>>
>>
>>>If you need any help doing HDD-less linux distros, don't hesitate to
>>>ask  me as I've been working on that quite a bit recently.  I've got a
>>>complete system with basically every networking tool you could ever
>>>want  (including full ipv6 support) on one barely full floppy disk,
>>>and that's  without tweaking the linking and compiler optimization for
>>>size.
>>>
>>
>>
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