[luau] HDD-less Linux

[MonMotha]

I'm working on the ppp daemon.  It appears that uClibc's claim that pppd 
compiles without a patch is horribly wrong.  I've got it down to just 
one symbol unresolved that I'm working out now, but it's proving to be a 
real pain.

--MonMotha

Dustin Cross wrote:
> 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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