Can't you just make a bootable CD, using the Coyote floppy as as the
source?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] CD-Based Firewall
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:26:10AM -0500, chris lee wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:31:42 -0500, Paul M Foster
>> <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>> > I have a Coyote firewall that runs on an old 486 and boots from a
>> > floppy. This machine will not boot from a CD-ROM. I'm looking to
>> > replace
>> > it with a machine that will boot from a CD-ROM. Because of this, I'm
>> > looking for a firewall distro that boots from a CD-ROM and _does not
>> > require either a floppy or hard drive_. In particular, it must handle
>> > PPPoE, but needn't have anything other than SSH and/or web interfaces
>> > for management. Since we're talking about a machine with no hard drive
>> > or floppy, it has to be capable of being modified on another machine,
>> > and then a new CD burned when one wants to modify the configuration.
>> > Let
>> > me state again-- I'm looking for a CD-based firewall that does _not_
>> > require a floppy nor hard drive to operate.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>>
>> you can try
>> http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?sort=Purpose&showonly=firewall
>> or http://smoothwall.org
>>
>
> Smoothwall requires a hard drive.
>
> As for the others mentioned at the frozentech site, only one will work
> from a CD and not require HD or floppy: floppyfw. It was the last one I
> looked at because of the name. Go figure.
>
> Paul
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