Try this
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
It can be set to run in 8M and requires no more than a 386. Contained on a
single floppy it is a screening router using ipchains.
Civileme
"S. Newhouse" wrote:
> Andrew Mitchell writes:
> > I've got an old 486 here that my friend wants to use as a
> > firewall/proxy, but I can't install either mandrake or redhat on it due
> > to the lack of ram (8mb) and it being a 486. On both, it stops at
> > loading 2nd stage ramdisk. It's quite screwed, at least for windoze use,
> > since it'll only boot with the hard drive set to slave, so I can't
> > install a UMSDOS-based floppy distro. Does anyone have any suggestions
> > as to what can be installed or what I can do to get mandrake onto it?
> >
> > ps: I sent a message to the newbie list, and it appeared on the
> > archives, but I haven't got any msgs from the list since yesterday, even
> > tho i know there are some there.
> >
> > Andrew Mitchell
> Slackware used to work with 8 MB RAM, but I don't know about the
> current distribution.
>
> -sen
