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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 15:21:19 +1000
From:      Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting Up a Hard-Diskless Firewall
Message-ID:  <20000530152119.D36543@albury.net.au>

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> 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.

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