Jack Coates wrote:
> How would all you smart people suggest improving this? My router is a
> 486/33 with 24mb RAM and an unused 341mb drive, booting from (2) 1680kb
> floppies (92% and 68% full). I would like:
>
> * updated version, like Dachenstein or Oxygen -- these haven't been
> focussing on PPP though.
Only reason I haven't is that every time I attempt PPP, it seems to
take a LONG time to get it right, and causes a lot of headaches in the
meantime.
Last time I tackled it, I couldn't understand why no one could
connect. Then I discovered if you stretched the time out to over
three minutes, you could connect (using Win95).
After compiling a special version of pppd with better logging, I
finally found that it was the inability to communicate with the DNS
server that was causing this! And this after a month of haggling....
I also discovered that ppp.lrp and pppd.lrp conflict with one another,
and they aren't up to date either.
> I have to admit that the option which has looked best to date is
> FTP installing a full Linux distro or FreeBSD on that little hard drive
> :-( A regular Unix toolkit instead of busybox and a packaging system
> would be pretty handy.
busybox now supports unpacking RPMs and *.deb files; that comes pretty
close.
I've been looking at full (small) distributions. For 341M, you should
be able to install something like Red Hat if you tweak it and remove a
lot of the excess. I'd like to create a Red Hat or Mandrake based
distro that would work in just a system as yours...
You might want to consider Peanut - it is also designed for small
environments like your 486.
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