[TriLUG] FDD Firewall distros

[Roy Vestal]

This is a laptop with an FDD only, no CDROM, no USB...

Mike Mueller wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 14:28, Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
>>Howdy. I'm looking a very "unique" distro. I'm looking a distro that will
>>fit on one or FDD's, 2.4 kernel, iptables (for nat/firewall) and supports
>>PCMCIA NICs. That's right, I want a Floppy Firewall that will run off a
>>happyh little laptop with No HDD and No CD.
>>
>>anyone?
> 
> 
> I was following LRP in 2000.  They were using 2.2 kernels and having to use 
> special techniques to use more than 1.4MB on the FD.  Unsafe IMO.  I had 
> little success with it but I was a raw noob back then. With 2.4 I'm not sure 
> what the status is now.  Whoa! Major sour grapes. http://www.linuxrouter.org/
> 
> Would you consider CDROM with a RAMdisk?  More space all around.  CDROMs are 
> a 4x cost of FDD (4 X $5 = $20).  Same safety attributes - root assaults 
> cured with reset.
> 
> These embedded Linuxes might be the new thing in this area.  Sorry I missed 
> the White Dwark presentation. The PC/104 stuff is pretty cool.  Embedded R-T 
> Linux is high on my todo list.
>