[Wolves] Linux firewall in 16MB ?

[Wayne Morris]

is smoothwall not an option anymore?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Wootton" <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>
To: "Wolverhampton Linux User Group" <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:37 PM
Subject: [Wolves] Linux firewall in 16MB ?


>I have a choice of two highly desirable antique PCs to use as a 
> firewall. One is a a 486/66 and one a P133. The P133 has 16MB of memory 
> and the 486 40MB. Either would have done the job a year ago.
> 
> I want to use a distro that is still being security patched but nothing 
> seems to run in less than 64MB any more. I've tried an Ubuntu "custom" 
> install (starts to install with 40MB then randomly hangs after a few 
> hours of hard labour - without giving me any chance to enable the swap 
> file). I read the spec. of Fedora (64MB for a text install!) and 
> Smoothwall. The new Debian installer booted off floppies won't even run 
> in 16MB.
> 
> In desperation I tried OpenBSD as a colleague has been suggesting for 
> about a year. It seems to work fine in 16MB once you get past being 
> dumped at the command line to partition your disk using a BSD jargon 
> dialect. So well in fact that I'm thinking of having a go at getting a 
> workstation running on the 40MB box. I don't like throwing stuff away.
> 
> Before I put in any more effort learning a new flavour of Unix, can 
> anyone suggest a sensible Linux config. or tell any reason why OpenBSD 
> would be a bad choice? I'm not ready to try Gentoo on a PC with a BIOS 
> that won't boot off a CD. I've already spent about 3 days on this. I 
> have a nice collection of boot floppies for my troubles though.
> 
> Woo
> 
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