On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:58:30PM -0600, Patrick K Moorman wrote:
I just aquired a 486-25 w/120 MB HDD and 18 MB RAM. I would like to use it as a firewall/router. How should I set this up? How big should the partions be? A minimum install of 6.2 is about 92MB. Plus a swap partion of 18MB that leaves me with aprox. 10MB free. Maybe. Does anyone have experience doing this? In addition to the above I need to be able to telnet/rlogin as this box will not have KMV. Thanks.
In the near future, I will also setup a firewall, so yesterday I looked up some documentation. First, look at the HOWTO's, i.e. Firewall-HOWTO. Second, look at http://www.linuxrouter.org/, they create a one floppy linux distribution. To use SuSE is probably overkill, you don't need much for a filewall. A linux server without a keyboard and monitor is possible. You can connect it via a serial-line to another computer, this needs a few options in your kernel and a recompile. Look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt for more info. I hope this helps. Cees. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/