Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 18:27:13 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: PiagetF@skypoint.com, marc@dev.com Subject: Re: Gated as router Message-ID: <m0tbedd-000AmbC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <199601142034.MAA21261@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jan 14, 96 12:34:44 pm
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> From: "Frank E. Kania" <PiagetF@skypoint.com> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 06:35:09 -0600 > Subject: Gated as Router > > [wants freebsd/gated as a router] on a 386 with limited hard drive and 4 > megs. ... Freertr, that has been trimmed down to run on a floppy based 386 > ... It it possible to do something similar > using a current released of FreeBSD and gated? As I understand it, the current version won't install in 4 Megs, but I think if you built a non-generic kernel tuned to your system, it should work ok. Marc and I have considered doing an updated version of Freertr; in particular we'd like to put gated and expect on it, but since that would require at minimum two floppies, and with hard disk prices the way they are, there doesn't seem to be much point --- people can just get a $200 hard disk and put a regular installation on it. The current version of Freertr has about 30K left on the disk; with the compressed binaries and shared libraries features, we might be able to squeeze out some more space, but one idea I had was to have basically the same stuff on disk 1, and have it check to see if there is a disk 2 present, and if so, make available the added features. The question is, though, is it worth the effort? Are there enough people who want to do this that can't or don't want to get a cheap hard disk? -- Alan Batie ______ batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Freedom for me to be and do +1 503 452-0960 \ / only what *you* approve of 45 28 59 N / 122 43 20 W / 440' MSL \/ is no freedom at all. It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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