[Glastonbury] firewall using 486 with floppy

[d.hopkins]

Thanx i'll look into these suggestions more. Yes it does have a hard drive
of course - i'll have to recheck its size.
I believe that there needs to be a version of LINUX on Floppy or CD ROM
which is what any 'intruder' is confronted with, and cannot be got through
to the desktop pc / network behind it. Perhaps it can be put on hard drive,
but as said, i shall follow up the suggestions here.

(There is a network card connecting from 486 to personal pc, but needs to be
configured yet.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin WHEELER" <mwheeler at startext.co.uk>
To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)"
<glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] firewall using 486 with floppy


> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, d.hopkins wrote:
>
> > in the process of trying to setup a firewall using an old 486 machine
> > (currently has windows 3.1 on which can be removed)
> >
> > MAIN POINT - i know that the 486 needs a basic LINUX running on it, but
it
> > only has a Floppy drive on it. Is there a recommended version of LInux
on
> > Floppy which could be used?
>
> Not really.  I always use Tom's Root-Boot for anything which requires a
> single-floppy version of Linux (see:  http://www.toms.net/  for quite a
> few one-, two- or three-disk versions of Linux -- all of 'em great fun
> to play with).
>
> But as you're talking firewalls, you're going to need a little more than
> just one (even compressed) floppy's worth.
>
> >From memory, a very very basic Debian is about 2 floppies' worth of
> root-boot disks; plus about another ten floppies of necessary stuff.
> I've got a set kicking around somewhere, so will try and look them out
> for Wednesday.
>
> The best solution for you is to
> EITHER
> install a very basic version of whatever (usually spelled 'debian' :)
> and then use that to go on the internet and upgrade your installation to
> whatever is the minimum necessary for the task in hand;
> OR
> stick a network card in the machine, and do likewise over a local
> network.  (It's already got two network cards in it, right?)
>
> Alternatively, you can take the lid off the box, hang a CD drive in
> there with lots of trailing cables and stuff, install from CD, remove
> drive, and put lid back on.
>
> Depends what you've got hanging around in the shack.
> (I used to go around with a 100M version on zip-disk, and a plug-in
> drive.)
>
> I'd go for the minimum install from floppy, followed by upgrade over the
> internet.
>
> If you examine your CDs very carefully, you'll find floppy-disk images
> on them which you can then rawrite to floppy.
>
> I've also got various single-CD firewall distributions that I'll try and
> remember to fish out for Wednesday.
>
> HTH,
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