Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others.
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Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/
...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions:
The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" [email protected] wrote:
Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others.
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Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/
...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions:
The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.
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Coming into the discussion late, but if you are looking for a firewall to run on a 386, you might consider older versions of Smoothwall (say .99) or IPCop. Check the IPCop forums (ipcop.org) and search thru the user forum. I found multiple hits on '386' where people talk about installing Smoothwall .99 on a 386, and IPCop on 486's with 16 meg of ram. Seems IPcop won't install with 8 meg, but if you populate it to 24, and then install you can reduce it back down to 16 (or maybe even 8) and run. I would suspect that you could search the Smoothwall forums for the same thing.
Dave
P.S. arrgh... damn web email client. Apologies for the empty post.
--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" [email protected] wrote:
Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others.
-----Original Message-----
Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/
...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions:
The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.
Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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