From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 22:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dastor.albury.net.au (dastor.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0337B68F for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 22:21:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicks@dastor.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by dastor.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA38717 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 May 2000 15:21:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from nicks) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:21:19 +1000 From: Nick Slager To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting Up a Hard-Diskless Firewall Message-ID: <20000530152119.D36543@albury.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I currently have a couple of FreeBSD machines running (FreeBSD 4.0 > webserver, and a firewall running 3.2). Anyways, I'm interesting in > redoing my firewall. I'd like to run it off just a floppy or something so > I don't ever have to worry about the HD crashing (the drive is having some > issues right now....). > > So, is it possible to run a super-stripped FreeBSD machine using like a > floppy and a CDROM or something? Have a look at PicoBSD - http://people.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html It'll run well as a firewall of a single 1.44Mb floppy. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message