>From the Coyote site:
"Coyote Linux WILL boot in 8MB; Coyote Linux will most likely crash
in 8MB if you use ANY of the additional daemons that come with it...
it has done so to many people."
Are you running yours on a laptop with pcmcia nics? Perhaps it
is the pcmcia modules that would force a 12mb minimum?
I suppose I should see if I can locate a ram upgrade for my old
ThinkPad 360cse. No way would I pay new vendor prices but
perhaps someone has one used they'd part with cheap.
Thanks! doc
> http://www.coyotelinux.com/ has a distribution that you can download
> and build a floppy based firewall/router. I've had one running for almost
> 6 months without a problem. Mine is a 486dx with 12mb of ram. It should
> work with 8mb of ram provided you don't load a bunch of modules into
> the kernel.
>
> Brett Simpson
> Internet Administrator for Hillsborough County
> (813) 301-7144
> simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org
>
> >>> selinux@home.com 11/23/01 01:52AM >>>
> On Friday 23 November 2001 01:00, you wrote:
> > Just wasted my time on Freesco -- sure wish they'd state this up
> > front! "Freesco doesn't support any PCMCIA"
> > "and we are not going to add it, sorry."
> >
> > Next suggestion, please?
> >
> > Remember, I am looking for a small firewall for my IBM ThinkPad
> > (laptop) with 8m RAM, 486dx/2 50mhz CPU, 360m HDD, FDD,
> > and two PCMCIA ports -- no built-in nic or modem -- must handle
> > PCMCIA nics to connect with external ADSL device.
> > (Currently has Win95 loaded. That will be wiped.)
> >
>
> Doc ... have you looked at floppyfw? I think it can shimmy in at 8 meg
> --
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1545352 911348 634004 0 335560 260784
> Swap: 401584 0 401584
> Total: 1946936 911348 1035588
> Linux a.genesis.com 2.4.14 #3 Fri Nov 9 23:14:31 EST 2001 K7 750MHz
> 1:51am up 1 day, 23:38, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.09, 0.02
>
>
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