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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:27:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To: Eric Hake <eric@clean.net>
Subject: RE: Minimalist FreeBSD box
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Have you looked at picoBSD?  (http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/)

It seems to do what you want to do, but it'll run off a single floppy, making
it even more minimal that what you asked for.

Patrick


On 06-Nov-98 Eric Hake wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I would like to get some advise on setting up a freebsd box with the
> following config:
> 
>   - Boots from CD-ROM
>   - Get's it's config files '/etc' from an IDE NVRAM drive or Flash drive
> 
> I will acquire a CD-R shortly (I'm open to suggestions on which CD-R to buy
> too :)
> 
> I would like to get help in what I need to do to make a CD-ROM bootable
> like the Live Filesystem, but with only the bare minimums:
> 
>    pppd
>    natd
>    fwtk
>    
> etc...  It'll be a headless box used to support a dial-out ppp session,
> with NAT on it to work as a front end for a low-speed link to the Internet.
>  No frills, and for a max. of 3-4 client machines with very low traffic...
> 
> Thanks!
>  Eric
> 
> 
> 
> 
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