Hi Maurits, Chad! dog@intop.net wrote:
do a custom install, dont select anything in x, kde, gnome, emacs. then go through the other choices and take out things like apache, sendmail, bind, nfs, lpr, mysql, staroffice, etc.
Right. The "minimum" selection is probably a good starting point for that.
I would do the following partition scheme /dev/hda1 / 500 meg /dev/hda2 swap 128 meg /dev/hda3 /usr 800 meg /dev/hda4 /home rest of drive
Why would you have /home on a firewall?? I would rather suggest to have /var on a separate partition, maybe /tmp as well, since these can be easily filled up by an attacker, and a full / partition is no fun. 100M for / should be easily enough, then. (PS: Would it make sense to make /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp instead?)
Furthermore I was thinking to partition my disk with a app. 12MB /boot
No need to have /boot on a separate partition (with recent lilo/small disk).
Would LVM be an option? (Would think not but...)
No, doesn't make sense on a firewall (IMHO). Have fun! :-) Florian Kirchmeir